and al-Jarīrī (1) of Hamadhān; the ḥadith master Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Zabḥī al-Jurjānī (2); the erudite scholar Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bayḍāwī of Baghdad; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-Azdī al-Wāsiṭī, the cloth-merchant (3); the ḥadith authority Abū Bakr Makkī ibn Jābar al-Dīnawarī (4); the preacher of Hamadhān, Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, the traditionist (5); the associate of Ibn Abī Shurayḥ, Abū Ṣāʿid Yaʿlā ibn Hibat Allāh al-Fuḍaylī al-Harawī; the traditionist-philologist Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, of Turkish descent, the father of the ḥadith scholar Ibn Nāṣir—he was thirty-one years old; and the muhaddith of Ghazna, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Dīnawarī, known as Ibn al-Labbān (6).
167 – al-Hamadhānī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan*
The imam, the singular hadith scholar and preacher, Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan al-Hamadhānī, orator and teacher of Hamadhān.
He received transmissions from: Abū Sahl ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zayrak; Abū Bakr ibn Lāl; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tamīmī; Abū Ṭāhir ibn Salamah; and, in Baghdad, Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣalt, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Abū al-Fath ibn Abī al-Fawāris, along with several others.