—the recension of al-Asalī (1)—from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Dhakwānī; he also heard the Kitāb Shuyūkh Shuʿbah by al-Ṭayālisī—this being his transmission from Abū al-Shaykh—, the Kitāb al-ʿĪd by Abū al-Shaykh, the Kitāb al-Aṭʿimah by Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, the Kitāb al-Sunnah (2) by Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, and the Kitāb al-Miḥnah compiled by Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī, and others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was a shaykh, sound and upright; he was the teacher of our two shaykhs ʿAbd al-Mughīth (3) and ʿAbd al-Jalīl (4).”
Abū Mūsā reported that he died in the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in 516 AH.
266 – Al-ʿAlawī, Abū Muḥammad Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī *
The venerable elder, leader of the Sufis in Isfahan, the noble sayyid: Abū Muḥammad Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī al-Iṣfahānī, the Sufi. He transmitted extensively from Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, held the foremost rank within the order, and was known as Burṭalah (5).