and Ismaʿil ibn Muhammad al-Taymi, ʿAbd al-Ghafir ibn Ismaʿil, Wajih al-Shahhami, the jurist ʿUmar ibn al-Saffar, Ahmad ibn Saʿid al-Mihani, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Kirmani, and a great many others.
Al-Kirmani remained alive until 559 AH.
ʿAbd al-Ghafir said: “Our shaykh Ibn Khalaf is the man of letters, the hadith scholar, the consummate master whose auditions are sound, Abū Bakr. We have never seen a shaykh more scrupulous or more precise than he. He acquired an ample share of Arabic, would not overlook the loss of a single word that was read before him, would revisit difficult points, and would spare no effort.
“Scholars travelled to him. His father had him audition a vast amount of material; he dictated with full reliability, and we heard much from him.”
Ismaʿil ibn Muhammad the ḥāfiẓ said: “He had excellent conduct, was a man of virtue and knowledge, extremely cautious in what he accepted, and trustworthy.”
Al-Samʿani said: “He was distinguished, well-versed in language, literature, and the meanings of hadith, and of consummate chastity and piety.”
He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal 487 AH.

243 – Fāṭimah bint al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, Umm al-Banīn*
She was the daughter of the ascetic master Abū ʿAlī al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq; a shaykha, devout worshipper, and scholar, known as Umm al-Banīn of Nishapur, the wife of the master Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī and the mother of his children.
She heard hadith from Abū Nuʿaym al-Isfahani, Abū al-Hasan al-ʿAlawi, and ʿAbd Allah