ʿAlī ibn Ṣābir al-Sulamī, the Damascene, better known as Ibn Sayyidah.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Masiṣī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, the jurist Naṣr, and others of their circle.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Silafī, Ibn ʿAsākir, and his own son Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣābir.
Ibn ʿAsākir said, “We heard a great many recitations from him; he was trustworthy and circumspect. He lived fifty years and died in Ramadan 511 AH.”
Al-Silafī, however, remarked, “He was stingy in imparting knowledge, a body filled with envy.”
247 – Ibn al-Qushayrī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin
The shaykh, imam, Qur’an exegete, and erudite scholar; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, son of the imam and shaykh of the Sufis Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī of Nishapur, grammarian and theologian. He was the fourth of the shaykh’s sons.
His father took special care of him, let him hear ḥadith and taught him to read, until he excelled in Arabic, in both verse and prose, and in Qur’anic interpretation. He copied many works with remarkable speed of hand and was counted among the exceptionally intelligent. He kept the company of Imām