most of it, and from the judge Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jārūdī, the ḥāfiẓ (hadith master); Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sarkhasī, the last of the students of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qurashī; Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥuways al-Būshanjī, the preacher; Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ḍabbī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mālik al-Bazzār—he had met Abū Baḥr al-Barbahārī—; Abū ʿĀṣim Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mazīdī ⦗1⦘; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Manjūyah al-Iṣbahānī, the ḥāfiẓ; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ṣayrafī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭirāzī; Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, the mufassir (Qur’an exegete); Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Salīṭī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥayrī—though he did not transmit from him; Muḥammad ibn Jibrāʾīl ibn Māḥī; Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿĀlī; ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Harawī; ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār ibn Yaḥyā, the preacher; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī—he met him in Nīshāpūr; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb, the ḥāfiẓ Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Warrāq; Saʿīd ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī; Ghālib ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad; Muḥammad ibn al-Muntaṣir al-Bāhilī, the reliable one; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī the Younger; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bāshānī, a companion of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn; Manṣūr ibn Rāmish—he came to us in 407 AH; Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdīn; al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣāʾigh; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī; ʿAlī ibn Bushrā al-Laythī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yazīd; Abū Ṣādiq Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar; and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn