al-Qudaʿī al-Shurūṭī; and in al-Dun (1) he heard from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd al-Sufyānī; in al-Farak (2) from Badr ibn Dulaf al-Farakī; in Qarqīsiyā from ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khaṭībī; in Qarmisīn from ʿAlī ibn Munīr al-Ḥarrānī; in Sharwān from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Mufaḍḍaḍ—whom he judged to be layyin (somewhat weak); in Zarand from ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥasan; and in Abhar likewise from its leading scholar ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī, by virtue of his audition from his father in the year 419 AH. ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ al-Warrāq informed us of this.
He also heard in al-Fārūth from ʿAskar ibn Ḥasan ibn Sanbar; in Madīnat al-Qaṣr from Ghālib ibn ʿAlī; in Fayd (3) from Faraj ibn Ibrāhīm; in ʿArābān from Kalāb (4) ibn Ḥawārī al-Tanūkhī, through a chain that runs “from a man, from another man, from ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī”; in Darayyā from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥujayjah; in ʿAskar Mukram (5) from al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Dībājī; in Hānī (6) from Mubārakah daughter of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥanbalī; in the frontier-town of Nashawā (7) from Mufarrij ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh; and in al-Dūnaq from Naṣr ibn Manṣūr.
(1) A village belonging to the district of Dinawar, as recorded by Yaqut in his Dictionary and by al-Baghdadi in the Marasid.
(2) al-Fark: a village in the province of Isfahan. Al-Samani vocalises its name with a short vowel on both the fa and the ra, a notation followed by Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir in al-Lubab, 2/207. Yaqut, however, writes it with a short vowel on the fa and a silent ra, noting that some authorities also open the ra; Ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Baghdadi adopts Yaqut’s view in the Marasid. Al-Samani’s vocalisation is the more reliable.
(3) Fay: pronounced with an open fa and a quiescent final ya, it is a small town situated halfway between Kufa and Mecca, according to Yaqut’s Dictionary.
(4) Al-Dhahabi states in the entry “Kilab” of al-Mushtabih (p. 555): “With gemination … Kilab b. al-Hawari al-Tanukhi, a teacher of al-Salafi.” The locality in which al-Salafi heard from this shaykh is correctly read ‘Arban (without an alif), as indicated by Yaqut.
(5) A town in the Khuzistan region.
(6) A city belonging to the district of Diyar Bakr.
(7) Pronounced with fully articulated short vowels, it is a city in Azerbaijan also known as Nakhchawan or Naqjawan, according to Yaqut’s Dictionary.