, Ibn Māsi; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mufīd; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUṣmī; and others of their generation.
Those who narrated from him include al-Khaṭīb, al-Bayhaqī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūyah, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Shīrūyī, and a number of others.
He heard the Musnad of Isḥāq from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Simadhī.
He died in Ṣafar 433 AH. During that same year there also passed away Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭayyān in Damascus; Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Kassār (1); Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī (2) of Herat; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Simsār (3); Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Bājī; the sultan Masʿūd (4), son of the sultan Maḥmūd ibn Subuktikīn; the qadi of Seville, the ruler Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād (5); Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fādshāh (6); and Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Zaydī (7), the shaykh of Harran.
370 – Abū Dharr al-Harawī, ʿAbd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad*
A ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), eminent imam, precise critic, erudite scholar, and Shaykh of the Sacred Mosque: Abū Dharr ʿAbd ibn