; and the judge of Nishapur, Burhān al-Dīn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Saʿidī; and Abū al-Qāsim Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī, the preacher.
198 – al-Qaysī, Abū al-ʿAshāʾir Muḥammad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Fāris*
The shaykh, Abū al-ʿAshāʾir Muḥammad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Fāris al-Qaysī, a Damascene known as “al-Kurdī.”
He heard (hadith) from the jurist Naṣr, whose company he kept, and from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ and al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd.
He resided in Baalbek, served its governor, and later returned.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn ʿAsākir (2), his son al-Qāsim, his nephew Zayn al-Umanaʾ, and others.
He died in Baalbek, in Dhu l-Ḥijja 549 AH.
166 – Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fath, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madīnī ** (previously cited)
The ḥāfiẓ, ascetic, scrupulously pious imam, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madīnī.
He heard from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād and Yaḥyā ibn Manda. He then travelled; in Shiraz he studied under ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad, and in Baghdad under Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn and Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādish.