Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Mawhūb ibn al-Jawāliqī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Zāghūnī, his brother Abū Bakr al-Mujallad, Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī the preacher, the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir, and many others.

By written licence only: Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Laḥḥās.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a righteous shaykh, learned and reliable. He lived long and transmitted a large corpus; his narrations spread far and wide. He was humble, of fine manners, dignified and well-presented.”

Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “I wrote ḥadith from him, and he was truthful.”

Ismāʿīl the ḥāfiẓ likewise said: “A shaykh, trustworthy,” and he praised him further.

Al-Khaṭīb asked him about his birth and he replied, “In Ṣafar of the year 386 AH.” (2)

Abū al-Qāsim died on the sixth of Ramaḍān, 474 AH.

201 – Bībī Umm al-Faḍl bint ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAlī al-Harthamiyyah *

The venerable shaykhah, centenarian, and musnida, known as Umm al-Faḍl and Umm ʿIzzā (3): Bībī daughter of ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Harthamiyyah, of Herat.

She narrated from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ a small fascicle (juzʾ) with an elevated chain of transmission, for which she became famous.