and in Greater Syria (1), Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tafakkurī (2), and Maḥmūd ibn Jaʿfar al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Kawsaj (3).

185 – Ibn al-Bannāʾ, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī
The Imām, scholar, mufti, and ḥadith master, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī, author of numerous works.
He received ḥadith from Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqūwayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Sukkarī, and others of their rank, collecting a large and excellent corpus.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn Ẓafar al-Maghāzilī, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazzāz, Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, the two sons of Abū Ghālib (4), Aḥmad and Yaḥyā, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Farrāʾ, and Abū Bakr, the judge of the Bīmāristān.
He recited the Qur’an, in its various transmissions, to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī.
Many years earlier he had studied fiqh and juridical disputation with Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā, and he remained devoted to these pursuits throughout his life,