ʿAli al-Māliḥānī; Abū al-Wafāʾ ʿAli ibn ʿAqīl; Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad, the inheritance scholar; Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAli al-Dīnawarī; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥaddād; Muḥammad ibn ʿAli ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Dabbās; Abū Ṭālib ibn Yūsuf; Qarātakīn ibn Asʿad; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mulūk; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, the scribe; Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ; and the Maristan judge, Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī—the last person to hear him directly.
He was also transmitted from, by written authorization alone, by Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir al-Shahhāmī and Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Khayrūn, the Qurʾān-reciter.
Those who passed away in that same year, 454 AH, include: Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Shams al-Naysābūrī, the Qurʾān-reciter (1); the erudite Abū Naṣr Zuhayr ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sarkhasī (2), a disciple of Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī who narrated from Zāhir ibn Aḥmad (3); the senior grammarian Abū al-Ḥusayn Ṭāhir ibn Bābshādh al-Miṣrī al-Jawharī (4); the Imām Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Rāzī, the Qurʾān-reciter (5); Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Miṣrī, the ophthalmologist; the musnid of Samarkand, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Shāhīn al-Fārisī (6); and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zuhrāwī al-Qurṭubī (7), who related from Abū Muḥammad ibn Asad, as well as the chief judge of Egypt, Abū—