Al-Ḥākim praised him, magnified his standing, and said: “Their earliest forefather, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥarashī, was the deputy of the governor ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz over Nīshāpūr.
Abū Bakr recited the aḥruf (variant modes of Qur’anic recitation) to Abū Bakr al-Imām, and a formal session for scholarly debate was granted him while the teacher Abū al-Walīd was still alive.
Al-Ḥākim further stated, in the entry on Abū ʿAlī al-Maʿqilī: “Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us (ḥ).”
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad and a number of others likewise informed us, with an elevated chain of transmission:
“ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Makkī told us; al-Salafī told us; Makkī ibn ʿAllān narrated to us; Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī narrated to us; Abū ʿAlī al-Maydānī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzaq narrated to us; Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas, who said:
‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Do not boycott one another—”’ and he cited the remainder of the hadith. ⦗1⦘
Al-Ḥīrī died in Ramaḍān of the year 421 AH, at the age of ninety-six.
222 – al-Sutayṭī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sutayṭī,