Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazarmard al-Sarīfīnī, the preacher (1); the ḥāfiẓ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Jūrī (2), the ascetic of Nīshāpūr; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Manẓūr al-Ishbīlī (3), the transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū Dharr; and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Sikkīnah al-Anmāṭī (4).

He narrated from: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaydalanī; the muhaddith Najāʾ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Dimashqī, the perfumer, when still in mid-life; and ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī (5), the transmitter of the Musnad of Abū ʿAwānah.

203 – al-Bastīghī, Abū Saʿd Shabīb ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad*

The shaykh, the musnid: Abū Saʿd Shabīb ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khushnām (6) al-Nīshāpūrī, known as al-Bastīghī, the seed-merchant, a Karrāmī.

He related ḥadith from: Abū Nuʿaym al-Azharī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī, and a number of others.

Among those who narrated from him are: Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Farāwī; Zāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī and his brother Wajīh; Ismāʿīl ibn al-Muʾadhdhin; Wahbat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī; Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jawharī; and ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl, who said: “He was a righteous shaykh, reliable [in transmission].”