al-Dāʾim, Ibn Abī al-Yusr, al-Kamāl ibn ʿAbd, and many others.
By written authorisation, there was also Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (1) said: “He was dull-witted and grasped nothing. On one occasion—so I have been told—someone came to him to hear a fascicle, whereupon he said, ‘Take it to Ibn Sukaynah; he will read it to you on my authority, for I am busy.’ ” (2)
In that same year there died: Ibn Kulayb; the imam Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurṭubī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bakhīl; the scholar Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr al-ʿIrāqī, the preacher; Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Yāsīn al-Shāriʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fārisī the ascetic; Khalīl ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Rārānī; Khwārazmshāh Taksh; al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil; al-Wajīh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿĪsā al-Lakhmī (3) at the frontier (4); the judge ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Sāwī (5) (6); the jurist ʿAskar ibn Khalīfah al-Ḥamawī; and al-Niẓām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh.
…and he adds: “Taan: Ahmad ibn Nasir ibn Taan and his two sons are recorded under the entry ‘al-Tariqi’.”
He had already written in that same section (p. 419): “With the letter fa… Ahmad ibn Nasir ibn Taan, Abu-l-Abbas al-Tarifi, originally from Basra and later from Damascus, together with his two sons, Abd al-Rahman and Abd Allah…”.
(1) Al-Dhail, fol. 160 (Paris MS 5922).
(2) He also states: “Some people received hadith from him without enquiring into the shaykh’s condition or his suitability for transmission, merely to swell their own numbers. I have seen him, and the audition licence was compiled from him.”
(3) This word is obliterated in the original owing to a stain on the manuscript; we recovered it from al-Takmila of al-Mundhiri, entry 516.
(4) I.e. Alexandria.
(5) The manuscript reads “Abd”; we corrected it on the basis of the biography already given in this book and the sources cited there.
(6) The manuscript has “al-Sawusi”, which is certainly a copyist’s error.