in Basra; and from the mufti Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Zanjawayh, a disciple of Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, in Zanjān (1); and from Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAdl, the associate of Ibn Shubānah (2), in Hamadhān; and from Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shāfiʿī in Abhar; and from Abū Nuʿaym Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Zabzab in Wāsiṭ; and from Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn Saʿādah al-Hilālī in Salamās (3); and from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Faduwayh al-Kūfī in al-Ḥillah; and from Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn al-Khaṣīb al-Khānsārī in Jarbādhqān; and from Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq, the man of letters, in Sāwah; and from the judge of Dinawar, Abū Ṭālib Naṣr ibn al-Ḥusayn, in Dinawar; and from Muwaḥḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, the judge in Tustar; and from Abū Ṭāhir Ḥamd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Kawsaj in Karaj; and from Rāshid ibn ʿAlī, the Qur’an-reciter, in Ahwāz; and from Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nātān in Tiflis; and from Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Saranjī in Nisibīn; and from Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī in Shāpūr-Khwāst (4); and from Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad in al-Kankāwar (5); and from Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushayd al-Ādamī in Shahrastān; and from Abū Tammām Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Banbaq in al-Nuʿmāniyyah; and from the judge Masʿūd ibn ʿAlī al-Malḥī in Ardabīl; and from the judge Sālim ibn Muḥammad