and a number of others.

He alone narrated from Ibn Shiran al-Fāriqī, and he was uniquely authorised by Khumays al-Ḥawzī, by Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Ghulām al-Harrās Abū ʿAlī, and by Razīn ibn Muʿāwiyah al-ʿAbdarī. A written licence was also granted to him by Abū Ṭālib ibn Yūsuf and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Samarqandī.

Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn al-Nafīs ibn Munjib, Yūsuf ibn Khalīl, Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥāsin, Ibn al-Dubaythī, and others.

Among those who recited the Qur’an to him, together with its variant readings, were al-Sharīf Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Dāʿī and others.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was one of the leading reciters, noted for the precision of his reading, the excellence of his delivery, and the sweetness of his voice. He was among the last of the great masters, truthful and devout.”

Death: in Ramadan, 596 AH.

Zurayq: the initial letter is zāʾ.

173 – al-Bundār ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Qāsim al-Ḥarīmī *

The righteous shaykh, an exemplar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Qāsim ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥarīmī, known as al-Bundār, the brother of ʿAbd al-Jabbār.

He heard from Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Mulūk, Hibat Allāh al-Ḥarīrī, and the judge of the Bīmāristān.

While in Rayy he also received transmission from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ḥaṣīrī.