and, by ijāzah (written authorization) (1), from Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandawayh; Ghānim ibn Abī Naṣr al-Burjī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād—of whom he narrated a very large number of reports; the ḥāfiẓ Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Abarqūhī; the ḥāfiẓ Yaḥyā ibn Mandah; the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Dharr; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāliḥānī; his cousin Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Dharr—the last person to transmit from Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Kūshīdh; Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn ibn Abrūyah, a grandson of al-Ṣāliḥānī; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣabbāgh al-Dashtaj (2); Abū al-Fatḥ Ismāʿīl ibn al-Faḍl al-Sarrāj; the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Taymī—whose company he kept for some time and under whom he completed his studies; Abū Ṭāhir Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Rāshtīnānī (3); the preacher Tamīm ibn ʿAlī al-Qaṣṣār; al-Raʾīs Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Thaqafī; Abū Muḥammad Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās al-ʿAlawī; Abū Shukr Ḥamd ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥabbāl; Abū al-Ṭayyib Ḥabīb ibn Abī Muslim al-Ṭihrānī; Abū al-Fatḥ Rajāʾ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khabbāz; Ṭalḥah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī; Abū al-Qāsim Ṭāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Bazzār; the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Khayr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Marzūq al-Harawī; Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Fūruwayh al-Dallāl—one of the disciples of Abū Nuʿaym—and Abū