He transmitted hadith from Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī (1), and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān. Those who narrated from him include Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Yaḥyā ibn Shākir, and others. Al-Anmāṭī said, “A shaykh of moderate reliability.” (2) Al-Samʿānī remarked, “He used to append the records of his auditions to the individual booklets,” a point passed on by Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī (3). He died in Ṣafar 503 AH, at ninety-two years of age.

150 – Ibn al-ʿAllāf, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī*
The illustrious patron, trustworthy chamberlain, and musnid of Iraq—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the Qurʾān-reciter Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-ʿAllāf—belonged to a family celebrated for hadith transmission and learning, and he served among the chamberlains of the caliphate. Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī reports: “I heard him say, ‘I was born in the year 406 AH in…’”