al-Qāsim (1) ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan.
211 – Hamd ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zajjāj *
The ḥāfiẓ and ḥadith scholar of Hamadhān, Abū Naṣr.
He heard from: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Karābīsī, a disciple of al-Kajji; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mihrān; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān; Ṭāhir ibn Sahlawayh; Abū Zurʿah Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn; and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū al-Faḍl al-Falakī in his compilations, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī, Yūsuf al-Khaṭīb, and others.
Shayrawayh said: “He was reliable, a ḥāfiẓ, proficient in this field. I heard ʿAbdūs ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: ‘Hamd al-Zajjāj would read to the shaykhs, then lie down and continue reciting while flat on his back, thanks to his memorization and his mastery of the chains of transmission and the texts.’”
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 413 AH.
212 – al-Qanāziʿī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān **
The erudite exemplar, Abū al-Maṭarrif ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān (2) ibn ʿAbd