and—in addition to those—there survive manuscripts bearing his own audition of the following works: the Sunan of al-Kajjī; the Mustakhraj on al-Bukhārī; Abū Nuʿaym’s Mustakhraj on Muslim; the Ḥilyah and the Middle Muʿjam of al-Ṭabarānī; the various Musnad compilations of Sufyān al-Thawrī; the higher-isnād reports of al-Awzāʿī; the Musnad of the Syrian transmitters; the Sunan sections preserved from the books of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, together with his Jāmiʿ and his Maghāzī; Abū ʿUbayd’s Gharīb al-Ḥadīth; the Maqtal al-Ḥusayn; Kitāb al-Shawāhid; Abū ʿUbayd’s Kitāb al-Qaḍāʾ al-Arbaʿah; the Fawāʾid of Samawayh; the Fawāʾid of Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf; the Ṭabaqāt of Ibn al-Madīnī; and the Tārīkh al-Ṭālibiyyīn of al-Jiʿābī.⦗1⦘

Al-Samʿānī said: “He is the most eminent shaykh who ever granted me authorization. People travelled to him from far and wide, and he enjoyed a prestige unequalled in his generation. He was virtuous, devout, and trustworthy. Among the compositions of Abū Nuʿaym that he heard are: ‘Repentance and Seeking Excuse’, ‘The Nobility of Patience’, ‘Condemnation of Ostentation’, ‘Earning Lawful Livelihood’, ‘Guarding the Tongue’, ‘Affirming the Imamate’, ‘Physical Discipline’, ‘The Night Vigil’, ‘Concise Expression and Comprehensive Speech’, ‘The Virtues of ʿAlī’, ‘The Prophetic Sermons’, ‘Wearing Black’, ‘Veneration of the Friends of Allah’, ‘The Alms-Collectors’, ‘Dream Interpretation’, ‘Raising the Hands [in Prayer]’, ‘Humour’, ‘The Gift’, ‘The Sanctity of Mosques’, ‘The Neighbour’, ‘The Pre-dawn Meal’, ‘The Prescribed Shares’, ‘On the Seventy-Two Sects’, ‘Praise of the Generous’, the treatise entitled ‘Then We Inherited the Book’, ‘The Hearing of the Speaker’, ‘The Intelligent’, ‘The Ḥadīth of the Bird’, ‘Wearing Wool’, ‘The Burdensome’, ‘The Lovers together with the Beloved’, the ‘Forty Ḥadīths for the Sufis’⦗2⦘, ‘The Offering of the God-fearing’, ‘The Forty [Ḥadīths] on Legal Rulings’, ‘The Ḥadīth of Descent’, ‘That the Celestial Sphere is Not in Charge of Affairs’, ‘The Miʿrāj’, ‘The Rain-Prayer’, ‘The Earth’s Swallowing’, ‘Fasting and Night Prayer’, ‘The Prophet’s Recitations’, ‘Knowing the Companions’, ‘The Sciences of Ḥadīth’, ‘The History of Isfahān’, ‘Brotherhood’, and ‘Knowledge’.