ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī. Ibn al-Bannāʾ would scrape off the letters “būrī” and lengthen the sīn so that the word read al-Bannāʾ. This, it is said, was his practice. (1)

I (the author) say: This is criticism based on conjecture. The man himself is trustworthy, and he had passed his eightieth year—may Allah have mercy on him. Adherence to the Hanbali school is no disgrace—by Allah!—yet the family of Mandah and others say of the shaykh that he shows a trace of Ashʿarī leaning. We seek refuge in Allah from evil.

186 – al-Antāki, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar *
The judge, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥasan (2) ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Antāki, later al-Shāghūrī, who served as deputy judge in Damascus.

He heard from: Tammām the ḥāfiẓ and Ibn Abī Naṣr.

Transmitted from him: ʿUmar al-Dihistānī; al-Khaṭīb, despite his seniority; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Qubays; Jamāl al-Islām ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam; and Hibat Allāh ibn al-Akfānī.

He died at the beginning of 473 AH, aged seventy-nine. He was the last of Tammām’s pupils.

187 – Abū al-Khayr al-Ṣaffār Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh **
The shaykh—long-lived, trustworthy, and an authoritative transmitter—Abū al-Khayr (3) Muḥammad ibn Abī