al-Muṭarrif ibn Fuṭays, the judge; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Fakhkhār; Ḥammād al-Zāhid; and the jurist Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Shiqāq.

In 402 AH he set out on his travels, met Imām Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qābisi, remained in his company, and transmitted extensively from him. The following year, 403, he performed the ḥajj. On that journey he heard from Aḥmad ibn Firās al-ʿAbqasi; he received the text of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Abū Saʿīd al-Sijzī; and from Muḥammad ibn Sufyān he obtained the book al-Hādī fī al-Sabʿ (1). Thereafter he returned home laden with abundant knowledge. In Toledo he studied with the preacher Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās and with Khalaf ibn Aḥmad (2).

Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī said: “Our shaykh Ḥātim was among those who took great care to record and safeguard knowledge; he was reliable, and he copied a vast amount in his elegant hand (3).”

Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Mughīth said: “His handwriting was the very model of precision. He never ceased, despite his advanced years, to shoulder knowledge, disseminate it, and patiently persevere in that path. People benefited from him because he lived so long. He was invited to accept the judgeship of Córdoba, but he refused (4).”

I (the author) say: Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī, Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb, and a number of others.

He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 469 AH, at slightly over ninety years of age.

158 – Ibn Yūnus, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan al-Asbahānī *
The shaykh, scholar, ḥāfiẓ, hadith expert, and trustworthy authority, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn