the Maliki; and the distinguished scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Būnī al-Andalusī⦗1⦘; Abū al-Karam Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jalakht⦗2⦘, of Wāsiṭ; Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭāwūs⦗3⦘, the imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus; and Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ⦗4⦘.
35 – Ibn al-Jalakht, Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī*
A shaykh, scholar, devout, trustworthy, and the musnid (hadith authority) of Wāsiṭ: Abū al-Karam Naṣr Allāh⦗5⦘ ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalaf al-Azdī, al-Wāsiṭī.
He received hadith from his father⦗6⦘, from Abū Tammām ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbdī the judge, from Saʿīd ibn Kathīr al-Shāhid, and from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥawzī.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ, ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Naghubā, Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mandāʾī, and ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Faḍl Allāh—who was the last to transmit from him, just as he was the last to transmit from Abū Tammām.
Al-Samʿānī said: “I travelled to him⦗7⦘; he was a righteous, trustworthy shaykh, from a household devoted to hadith.”