and the leading Shiʿite scholar Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥamza al-Ṭālqī al-Jaʿfarī, the son-in-law of Shaykh al-Mufīd (1).
138 – al-Darbandī, Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), the itinerant scholar: Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Balkhī, known as al-Darbandī.
He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Gunjar and others in Bukhara; from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān and his circle in Baghdad; from the chaste shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr and the like in Damascus; from Abū Zakariyyā al-Muzakkī and Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī in Nishapur; from Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī in Basra; and from Ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ in Egypt.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Farāwī, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Qushayrī, Zāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī, and others.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He traveled from Bukhara to Alexandria. He was prolific and trustworthy, but his handwriting was poor (2), and he did not have great expertise in ḥadith. He heard in Balkh from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzaʿī; in Nishapur from Abū Zakariyyā al-Muzakkī; in Bahrā from the judge Abū Manṣūr al-Azdī; in Istarābādh from Bundār ibn Muḥammad; in Basra from the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī; and in Egypt from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naẓīf (3).”