, Ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāriʾ, the upright.
He said: He was truthful, qualified to give sworn testimony, and one of the notables of the town (1). He died in 425 AH.
I add: His companion (2) Abū Ghālib ibn al-Qāriʾ passed away in the early years after 500 AH (3).
289 – al-Dhakwānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
The scholar, ḥāfiẓ, indefatigable traveler, and trustworthy authority, Abū Bakr Muḥammad son of Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Hamdānī, known as al-Dhakwānī, an Isfahani whose narrations were deemed sound.
He was born in 333 AH.
He learned from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kushānī; the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl; Aḥmad ibn Maʿbad al-Simsār; Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-ʿAssāl; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṣṣār; Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Shaʿʿār; Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah the ḥāfiẓ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār al-Madīnī; ʿĀtika daughter of the Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī; Abū Bakr ibn al-Jiʿābī; Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī; and Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad