and al-Malik al-ʿUthmānī; Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq— a disciple of Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Makkī al-Sawwāq; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shītā; Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Masrūr; Abū ʿAlī al-Sharmaqānī; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAṭṭār; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ; Ḥasan ibn Ghālib al-Ḥarbī; and Faraj ibn ʿUmar al-Wāsiṭī.

He also heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Rizmah, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥarrānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghailān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, and others.

Those who recited to him the Seven Readings and additional modes included: Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara, Muḥammad ibn al-Khadr al-Muḥawwalī, Dhakwān ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī, and Abū Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ.

Among those who narrated from him were Ibn Nāṣir, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, and Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrab.

Ibn Sukkara said: “He was a Ḥanafī, reliable and pious; he dedicated himself entirely to teaching Qur’anic recitation and hadith.” (1)

Ibn Nāṣir remarked: “Trustworthy, eminent, precise, and firmly grounded.”

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was trustworthy and faithful, an expert reciter with a fine manner of instruction; many students completed the Qur’an under him, and he copied a large amount of hadith in his own hand.”

Al-Silafī stated: “I heard from him most of his book al-Mustanīr (2),”