in Damascus, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khayyāṭ, the Qurʾān-reciter (1).
165 — Ibn Sikkīna, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Anmāṭī
The shaykh and reliable authority, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Sikkīna al-Anmāṭī (2), of Baghdad.
He heard ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaydalanī, Muḥammad ibn Fāris al-Ghūrī, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were the Qāḍī of the Maristan, Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī, and ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūsufī.
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 469 AH, at the age of eighty.
166 — al-Mahrawānī, Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the leading scholar, the ascetic, the devoted worshipper, the truthful one, the last of the senior shaykhs: Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (3) al-Mahrawānī, al-Hamadhānī (4), a long-time resident of Baghdad and one of the Sufis attached to the Zawzanī ribāṭ.