and al-Yumn al-Kindī, Ibn Sukaynah, Yūsuf ibn Kāmil, ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Qaṭṭān, together with many others.

He copied a great number of books and was keen on transmitting ḥadīth while maintaining piety, uprightness, and learning. Crowds of people completed their Qurʾānic recitation with him in his mosque.

Ibn al-Samʿānī said: “He is a righteous shaykh of fine conduct. He kept company with the senior scholars and served them. A guardian of the Book of Allah, many finished their recitation under him, and I collected a large amount from him. Al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil brought out his certificate of audition for the sixth section of Ibn Abī al-Fawāris’ Intiqāʾ ʿalā al-Mukhalliṣ on an old folio belonging to ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī, whereupon Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī criticised him, saying, ‘He never heard anything from al-Busrī, though ʿUmar’s age could allow for it.’ ”

He died on the eleventh of Shaʿbān, 542 AH.

106 – Ẓāhir ibn Aḥmad, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Masāmīrī, a cloth merchant and a pious man.

He heard ḥadīth from Rizq Allah al-Tamīmī, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, and Ibn al-Baṭir.

Narrated from him: Ibn al-Samʿānī, Yūsuf ibn al-Mubārak, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qubbayṭī.

He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 541 AH.

107 – al-Jullābī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, the judge, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib.