and Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī; Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (1); Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī; Abū Aḥmad Ibn Sukaynah; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn al-Akhḍar; ʿAbd al-Razzāq Ibn al-Jīlī; Yaḥyā Ibn al-Rabīʿ, the jurist; al-Tāj al-Kindī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Bannāʾ, the mystic; the jurist Muḥammad Ibn Ghuniyah; Dāwūd Ibn Milāʿib; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn al-Nāqid; Aḥmad Ibn Ẓafar Ibn Hubayrah; Mūsā Ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir; Aḥmad Ibn Ṣirmā; Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad Ibn ʿUfayjah; al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Sayyid; and others—the last of them, by general ijāzah, being Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Muqayyar.
Among the errors made by the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Masdī, the resident scholar, is his claim that he read portions—or perhaps all—of the work al-Jaʿdiyyāt (2) to Ibn al-Muqayyar, transmitting it with the chain: “Ibn Nāṣir informed us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn Aḥmad al-Malīḥī informed us; Ibn Abī Shurayḥ informed us; al-Baghawī informed us.”
There is no doubt that al-Malīḥī did hear the book—I possess a copy written from his recension—but he died four years before Ibn Nāṣir was born.
Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Jawzī (3) said: “Our shaykh was reliable, a ḥāfiẓ, precise, a man of the Sunnah, faultless. He supervised my auditions; through his reading I heard the Musnad of Aḥmad and the major collections. From him I acquired my knowledge of ḥadīth. He was much given to remembrance of Allah and quick to tears.”
Al-Samʿānī said: “He liked to find fault with people.” Ibn al-Jawzī replied