Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Kindī, and Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī. The last to receive ḥadith from him was his own daughter, Sharaf al-Nisāʾ. He passed away on the eighth of Dhuʾl-Ḥijjah in 542 AH, while his father (2) died sometime after 500 AH.
98 – Ibn al-Ashqar, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
A bookseller from Baghdad, known as Ibn al-Ashqar.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī Billāh and Ibn Hazār-mard al-Ṣarīfīnī.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Samʿānī, Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī, Turk ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār, Aḥmad ibn al-Aṣfar, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, and several others.
He was upright and devout, and his auditions were sound. He died in Ṣafar 542 AH.
99 – Ibn Ukht al-Ṭawīl, Abū Bakr Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faraj al-Hamadhānī
The righteous, long-lived shaykh and leading transmitter (musnid) of Hamadhān, Abū Bakr Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faraj al-Hamadhānī, known as Ibn Ukht al-Ṭawīl.
He was born in 452 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Faḍl