and the traditionist, al-Ṣāliḥ Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūhannā al-Yamānī, who passed away at a little over eighty years of age; the vizier and chancery-secretary Muwaffaq al-Dīn Khālid ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn al-Qaysarānī al-Ḥalabī, who died there; the musnid Abū Manṣūr Ṭāhir ibn Makārim al-Mawṣilī, the tutor and transmitter of the Musnad of Muʿāfā; Shaykh Abū Jaʿfar ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Samīn; the great amir Sayf al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Malik Abī al-Hayjāʾ al-Hakkārī, nicknamed al-Mashṭūb; Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī, who died in Egypt; Abū Muḥammad Fāris ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Fāris al-Ḥaffār al-Ḥarbī, who lived to his mid-nineties; the ruler of Rūm, ʿIzz al-Dīn Qilij (1) Arslān ibn Masʿūd the Seljuk; the genealogist Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Asʿad al-Jawānī, a Sharīf, in Egypt, and others (2).

115 – Rajab ibn Madhkūr ibn Arnab, Abū al-Ḥaram al-Azajī

The shaykh, illiterate, Abū al-Ḥaram (3) al-Azajī, known as al-Akkāf (4). An elder with sound auditions and elevated chains of transmission, yet devoid of notable scholarly distinction.