al-Muṣliḥ al-Adīb; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭarsūsī; Khalīl ibn Badr al-Rārī; Masʿūd ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Ḥannāṭ; Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd al-Karrānī; Abū al-Makārim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Labbān; and a host of others. The last to sit with him in person was Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalanī, while by written authorization there was ʿAfīfah al-Fāriqāniyyah. He was likewise narrated from, on the strength of ijāzah, by Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir and Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī. He also issued a license to Abū Ṭāhir al-Khushūʿī, though that authorization was not publicized during his lifetime.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was a knowledgeable, trustworthy, and truthful scholar—one of the people of learning, the Qur’an, and religion. He lived a long life and transmitted extensively. Whenever his father went off to his ironsmith’s shop, he would take Ḥasan by the hand and leave him in the mosque of Abū Nuʿaym.”⦗1⦘

I say: In that very way he used to listen to Abū Nuʿaym, and before him his brother Ḥamd had done so—the same Ḥamd who narrated the Ḥilyah in Baghdad.

Ibn Nuqṭah said: “Abū ʿAlī heard from Abū Nuʿaym the Muwaṭṭaʾ as transmitted by al-Qaʿnabī⦗2⦘, the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad, the Musnad of al-Ṭayālisī, and the Musnad of al-Ḥārith.”