8 – Ibn Masrūr, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Naysābūrī *
The shaykh, leading authority, righteous exemplar, and ascetic—nicknamed “the Musnad of Khurāsān”—Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Masrūr al-Naysābūrī.
He heard narrations from Abū ʿAmr Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd; Bishr ibn Aḥmad al-Isfarāʾīnī; Abū Sahl al-Ṣuʿlūkī; Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bālawi (1); Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Simsār; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥmūdī; Abū Naṣr ibn Abī Marwān al-Ḍabbī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Balawayh; Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān the Qurʾān-reciter; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbduwī; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad ibn Khuzaymah (2); Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Samʿān; and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Salamuwyah; Sahl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Masjidī (3); Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Farāwī; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr al-Qāriʾ; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Jurjānī; Hibat Allāh ibn Sahl al-Sayyidī; and others besides them.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl said: “He is Abū Ḥafṣ al-Māwardī, al-Fāmī.”