and the Egyptian ruler al-Ṣāliḥ Ṭalāʿiʿ ibn Ruzzayk (1), and Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣābūnī (2), and Muqbil ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣadr the Ḥanbalī, and the sovereign of Transoxiana, Maḥmūd Khāqān ibn Muḥammad (3).
266 – Ibn Karrūs, Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī
The shaykh, hadith scholar, and musnid: Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris ibn al-Munajjā ibn Karrūs al-Sulamī, of Damascus.
He was born on the Day of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā in 473 AH.
He studied the recension of the Muwaṭṭaʾ transmitted by Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr from Mālik at the hands of the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī. He also heard hadith from Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Rumaylī and Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʾīnī.
He pursued hadith independently and produced copies in his own hand.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn ʿAsākir, his son al-Qāsim, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, his brother ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, the judge ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulṭān, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Ṣaṣrā, Mukram ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr, Isḥāq ibn Ṭarkhān al-Shāghūrī, and others.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir said, “I wrote from him after he had repented, and he was a shaykh of commendable character.”