Sulwān; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dārimī; Ibn Sakhtām; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Shawāsh; and a number of others. He was the sole transmitter of many individual fascicles.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Silafī; al-Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir, together with his brother the ḥadith master; al-Khaḍir ibn Shibl al-Ḥārithī; Abū Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥuṣnī; al-Khaḍir ibn Ṭāwūs; al-Faḍl ibn al-Bāniyāsī; Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir; and others.

His father took special care of his training, and his first audition of hadith was in 439 AH, when he was six years old.

He died on the third of Jumada al-Ākhirah 510 AH, at the age of seventy-seven.

256 – Ibn al-Mawāzinī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn

The shaykh, scholar, hadith transmitter, Qur’an reader, and trustworthy authority—the shaykh of Damascus—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Sulamī al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Mawāzinī.

Born: Rajab 430 AH.

He studied under Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad and Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad—the two sons of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr; Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulwān; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān; Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Furāt; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿAqīl; and several others. He transmitted certain materials uniquely, and his chains of transmission were notably elevated.