He heard ḥadīth from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Fuḍayl ibn Yaḥyā and from Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd al-Fārisī, and he remained in the company of Shaykh al-Islām for a considerable period.
Narrated from him: his grandson Abū Rūḥ al-Harawī, who was especially eager to learn from him and had him relate a large body of material.
Others who narrated from him include Ibn al-Samʿānī; by formal authorization, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Ibn al-Jawzī, and Ibn Bawsh.
He died in 539 AH, having nearly reached the age of eighty.
105 – ʿUmar ibn Ẓafar ibn Aḥmad, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Shaybānī*
The imām, the scholar who benefited Baghdad, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Shaybānī (1), al-Maghāzilī, the Qur’an reciter.
He mastered numerous modes of recitation under Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ashʿath al-Samarkandī and others.
Under him, Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad al-Awānī recited the Seven Readings.
He was born in 461 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī, Mālik al-Bāniāsī, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, al-Niʿālī, and many others, even writing from Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn and his associates.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir (2), Ibn al-Jawzī, and Abū