and ʿAbd al-Karim ibn Kulayb al-Harrani; Hibat Allah ibn Naqqash al-Sikkah, the brother of the person just mentioned; ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Rawaj al-Azdi; Bahaʾ al-Din ʿAli ibn al-Jumayzi; Shuʿayb ibn Yahya al-Zaʿfarani; Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn Badr al-Dimashqi; ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn Hasan ibn Hayyaj; ʿAbd al-Muhsin al-Saṭḥī; ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Jalil al-Razi; Qaymaz (1) al-Muʿaẓẓami; Hibat Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Mufarrij ibn al-Waʿiẓ together with his grandson, Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Makki, and many others. The last of them to pass away—the one who transmitted the serial musalsal (2) from him—was Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salam al-Safaqusi.
By written ijazah he also authorized Taj al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Shirazi, al-Nur al-Balkhi, ʿUthman ibn ʿAli ibn Khatib al-Qarafah, the hadith master Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi, Makki ibn ʿAllan al-Qaysi, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi al-Jamaʿili, and several others.
Among those who likewise heard directly from him was Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Yaqut.
Those who narrated from him on the strength of his general ijazah (3) include al-Zayn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Daʾim (4) and a number of others; between Ibn Tahir and
(1) The name appears in the manuscript exactly as written here; it is also spelled: Qaymaz.
(2) I.e. the musalsal bil-awwaliyya (“successively-transmitted first-heard”) hadith, one of the technical categories of isnads in which each transmitter relates the very first hadith he ever heard from a specific teacher. The wording of the hadith is: “al-rahimun yarhamuhumu al-Rahman; irhamu man fi al-ard yarhamkum man fi al-sama” – “Those who show mercy are shown mercy by the All-Merciful; show mercy to those on earth and the One in heaven will show mercy to you.” Shuayb judges the hadith authentic on account of its corroborating chains. It is reported from Abd Allah b. Umar by Abu Dawud (4941), al-Tirmidhi (1925) who grades it hasan, and al-Hakim, 4/179, who declares it sahih, although the chain there contains Abu Qabus, from whom only Ibn Dinar narrates and whom only Ibn Hibban deemed reliable according to his usual leniency. Abu Ya‘la and al-Tabarani in his three Mu‘jams also narrate it via Abu Ishaq al-Sabi‘i, from Abu Ubayda, from Ibn Mas‘ud; the transmitters are trustworthy except that Abu Ubayda did not hear directly from his father Ibn Mas‘ud. Al-Tabarani (2502) further transmits it from Jarir b. Abd Allah al-Bajali with narrators who all meet the criteria of the two Sahihs, as al-Haythami states in Majma‘, 8/187; see the remaining supporting chains there.
(3) It is established that Imam al-Salafi issued a universal ijaza to all Muslims before his death; some transmit through this general authorization.
(4) I.e. al-Maqdisi.