Al-Abbar says in his History (1): He met Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, kept his company, and received from him a large portion of the Muwattaʾ of Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr (2), which al-Ghazālī had himself heard from the jurist Naṣr. He then remained nine months in Jerusalem teaching the Qur’an.
He lived to an advanced age and eventually assumed the foremost chair for the teaching of Qur’anic recitation.
Among our own teachers who narrated from him (3) were Abū al-Qāsim ibn Baqī and Abū Zakariyyā al-Tādilī. Al-Tādilī conveyed to us, by direct audition, the Book of al-Shihāb by al-Qudāʿī, saying:
“Abū (4) al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥunayn narrated to us, al-ʿAbsī narrated to us, the author (5) narrated to us.”
Al-Abbar (6) then added: He died in 569 AH.
I say: In Qūṣ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Haskurī transmitted the Muwattaʾ—or part of it—from him. The author of the book al-Imām states: “I read in Qūṣ to ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qūṣī that he had heard al-Haskurī—when the latter visited them—reporting from Ibn Ḥunayn … and he cited a hadith.”
14 – Ibn al-Shahrazūrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim *
The imam, Chief Judge, Kamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn