any of the original source-books?’
He replied, ‘I once possessed a shidda (1) and sold it to Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Tuyūrī (2); I have no idea what was inside it.’ We therefore went to Ibn al-Tuyūrī, and he produced it. In it were his audition certificates from al-Malīnī and others, so we read the material aloud to him.
I (the author) add: This ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, died in Ṣafar of the year 493 AH, at an age well above ninety. Al-Salafī obtained an ijāza from him, and several fascicles of ʿawālī (hadiths with elevated chains) reaching back through him have come down to us.
58 – al-Dhakwānī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad
Trustworthy and prolific, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—son of the shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Hamadhānī—known as al-Dhakwānī, from Isfahān, was an owner of original manuscripts and possessed an extensive range of transmissions.
He heard hadith from Ibn Mayla, Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh, al-Malīnī, his grandfather, ʿUthmān al-Burjī, and many others.
He was born a little after 390 AH and died on the Day of ʿArafah, 484 AH.
Many narrated from him, among them ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad Kutāhū (3) and the ḥāfiẓ