Ḥayd, and the ḥāfiẓ Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir al-Sijzī, ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barzah the preacher, Abū Sahl Ḥamd ibn Wulkīz (1), Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār al-Mustamlī (1), ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Karawnī, Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Naqqāsh (1), al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūnus, and ʿĀʾishah bint al-Ḥasan al-Warkāniyyah—he alone in the world narrated from all of them.
His first audition took place in 459 AH.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Silafī, Ibn ʿAsākir (2), al-Samʿānī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī, Zāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī, Ismāʿīl ibn Māshādhah, Yūsuf and Khuḍr, the two sons of Maʿmar ibn al-Fākhir, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Khumārtāsh the preacher, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣabbāgh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Fāriqānī, and many others, the last of whom was Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Madīnī.
He is the transmitter of the Maʾmūn recension.
He lived to a great age, retaining full use of his faculties.
He died on the seventh of Ṣafar, 551 AH.
162 – Ibn al-Bunn, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī *
The shaykh, jurist, scholar, senior ḥadith transmitter, and trustworthy authority, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī, a Damascene Shāfiʿī, widely known as Ibn al-Bunn.