he heard from Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān a number of acceptable reports, and likewise from ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿUqb, Abū ʿAlī ibn Jābir al-Farāʾiḍī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Marwān, and others.
I say: Among those who narrated from him were Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥabbān, Abū ʿAlī al-Muqrīʾ al-Ahwāzī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Abū Naṣr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāb, the ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) Abū Saʿd al-Sammān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Kattānī, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Miṣṣīṣī.
Al-Kattānī said: “Judge Ibn Hārūn, imam of the Great Mosque of Damascus and its acting judge, died in Ṣafar 417 AH.” He added, “He was trustworthy and reliable.”
264 – Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī*
The shaykh, jurist, imam, man of letters, and reliable transmitter: Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shādhān al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Ṣaydalānī.
He studied under Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akhram, and Abū Bakr al-Ṣibghī.
Those who reported from him include al-Bayhaqī, al-Raʾīs al-Thaqafī, and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Muʾadhdhin.
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 415 AH.