so I said, “By what means?” He uttered in a hushed tone, “By adherence to the Sunnah (1).”

Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī remarked, “Very little of his hadith was put into circulation.”

I add: Abū Bakr al-Ṭuraythīthī did transmit from him his work entitled Explanation of the Sunnah.

275 – al-Kharjānī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad

The shaykh, traditionist, musnid, and reliable authority: Abū al-Ḥasan (2) ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī, al-Kharjānī—a righteous man.

He travelled widely and heard hadith from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Hujaymī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah, Ibrāhīm ibn Firās al-Makkī, Judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū al-Shaykh, and several others.

Among those who narrated from him were Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Saylaqī, Rawḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Rārānī (3), ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Sulaym, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Ushtah, and a number of others.

Al-Khaṭīb said, “He wrote to me granting authorization to transmit whatever of his hadith I deemed sound.”

Others who took hadith from him include the traditionist Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Mardawayh and additional transmitters.