had high-level isnāds, compiled the topical chapters, and even had children attend his readings; he came from a household devoted to ḥadith and uprightness.

A reliable informant told me that Abū Saʿīd publicly produced an audition certificate from Abū Ṭāhir ibn Khuzaymah only after the death of Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī. The ḥadith scholars took issue with him for that and were not pleased—Allah knows best his true state. His other auditions, however, are sound. He granted me authorization to transmit his narrations, and a number of people reported from him, among them my father, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, and Abū Saʿd ibn Rāmesh.

I say: the last person to narrate from him was Zāhir al-Shahhāmī.

He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 456 AH.

In that same year passed away: the chief judge Sirāj ibn ʿAbd Allah (1), Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Darabandī (2), ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Nakhshabī (3), the erudite Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Barhān (4), Abū Shākir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Qabrī (5), Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm al-Ẓāhirī (6), Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Narsī (7), and ʿAmīd al-Mulk al-Kundurī the vizier (8).

Ibn ʿAsākir informed us, through Abū Rūḥ; Zāhir informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khashshāb informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj narrated; Qutaybah narrated; Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—from Suhayl, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah: