ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shādhān al-Aʿraj; Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Hamadhānī (1); Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Naẓīf (2) al-Farrāʾ; al-Musaddad ibn ʿAlī al-Umlūkī (3); al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī (4); and Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Muzanī of Damascus.
366 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muzanī, the imām, traditionist, and reliable authority, known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Muzanī (5), from Damascus.
In earlier days he used the kunyah Abū Bakr, but when the Fāṭimid regime forbade that kunyah he adopted Abū al-Ḥasan instead.
He narrated from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Munīr; Abū ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ramrām; Muḥammad ibn Maʿyūf; al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar the muʾadhdhin; the qāḍī Yūsuf al-Mayanajī; Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr; and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ; Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr al-Anbārī; the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm; ʿAlī ibn Bakkār al-Ṣūrī; Saʿd ibn ʿAlī al-Zanjānī; and others.
Al-Kattānī said, “He was a trustworthy, distinguished, and dependable shaykh. He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year …”