and the two sons of ʿAbd Allāh al-Sūdhrajānī, both of whom were named Aḥmad (1); they each narrated to him on the authority of ʿAlī ibn Maylah.
He also heard ḥadīth from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad, and he remarked, “None of my teachers passed away before him, and no one but he transmitted to us from Abū Manṣūr ibn Mihrabazd, the pupil of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣaḥḥāf.”
He went on to say, “Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kāghadhī likewise informed us, reporting from ʿAlī ibn Maylah.”
Al-Silafī further related through:
• Abū Muṭīʿ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣaḥḥāf, a disciple of Ibn Mardawayh;
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Qūsānī;
• Abū Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn Abī Hāshim al-Kundalānī (2);
• Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Ashtah (3);
• Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Saylaqī;
• Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salīm, the teacher;
• Abū al-Fath Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaddād—over whom he recited until the conclusion of the work;
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Naṣrī, the broker—one of the last companions of al-Jurjānī;
• Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Jawharī—a student of Ibn Maylah (4);
• Makkī ibn Manṣūr al-Karajī al-Sallār—a disciple of the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī (5);
• Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Muṭarriz—before whom he completed a full recitation;
• Abū al-Fath Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥārith al-Akhram—a disciple of Ghulām Muḥsin;
• the ḥadīth master Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, son of the ḥadīth master Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh;
• the ḥadīth master Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bushrawayh—from whom he received his Muʿjam;
• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qūlawayh; and
• the Qurʾān reciter Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī.