—al-Ṣayrafī; al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar al-Simmasār; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb; ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qaṭīʿī; Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Marwān; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Kaysān; Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar al-Khiraqī; Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah; Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī, and many others.
He was counted among the oceans of transmission. He related copiously and held numerous public dictation sessions.
From al-Qaṭīʿī he transmitted the Musnad of the Ten Companions, the Musnad of the Prophet’s Household taken from the Musnad, the five Qaṭīʿī booklets, and other material. He was the last person alive who narrated from al-Qaṭīʿī with direct audition and formal permission.
Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “He was trustworthy and reliable; we recorded ḥadith from him.”
He died on the seventh of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 454 AH.
I say: He lived a little over ninety years, and he was called al-Muqannaʿī because he would wear a ṭaylasān and wrap his turban in the Egyptian fashion (2).
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Naṣr ibn Mākūlā; Abū ʿAlī al-Bardānī; Ubayy al-Narsī; Aḥmad ibn Badrān al-Ḥulwānī; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Saqlāṭūnī; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Maʾmūn; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Dūrī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṭālib al-Khiraqī; Mubārak ibn ʿAmmār al-Wattār; al-Muʿammar ibn Muḥammad al-Anmāṭī; Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Maḥfūẓ ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥanbalī; and Muẓaffar ibn —