265 – al-Ḥammāmī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar*
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and chief Qur’an reciter of Iraq: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn al-Ḥammāmī, a Baghdadi by origin.
He was born in 328 AH.
Among those from whom he heard were ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Sahl al-Qaṭṭān, Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Ādamī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr, al-Najjād, Ibn Qāniʿ, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ādamī, and others.
In Qur’an recitation he studied with al-Naqqāsh, Zayd ibn Abī Bilāl, Abū ʿĪsā Bakkār, Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, Ibn Abī Hāshim, and additional teachers.
Those who transmitted ḥadith from him include al-Khaṭīb, al-Bayhaqī, Rizq Allāh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zikrī al-Daqqāq, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Fahd, and others.
A large number of students also received the Qur’an from him, among them: Abū al-Fath ibn Shitā, Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Fārisī, Abū ʿAlī Ghulām al-Harrās, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khayyāṭ, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Ṣūfī, Abū ʿAlī al-Sharmaqānī (1), Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAṭṭār, and ʿAlī