, al-Jabbār al-Khuwārī, and many others from various lands whom his father had encountered; yet I have found no evidence that he ever attended their gatherings—nor, for that matter, his father or his uncle al-Ṣāʾin.
In the year 532 AH he received oral transmission from: Jamāl al-Islām Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī; his great-grandfather the judge, al-Zakī Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī; Yaḥyā ibn Biṭrīq; Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī; Abū al-Durr Yāqūt al-Rūmī; Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs; Abū Ṭālib ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿAqīl; Abū al-Futūḥ Usāmah ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd al-ʿAlawī; Abū al-Karam Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, on the authority of Rizq Allāh; his father’s maternal uncle Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī; Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī; Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Bunn al-Asadī; al-Khaḍir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdān; ʿAbdān ibn Zarrīn (1) al-Duwīnī; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurṭubī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd ibn al-Sammān; and his own father, Abū al-Qāsim the ḥāfiẓ. He took from his father in extraordinary abundance: I do not know of anyone who received more from his father than this son—not even the son of Imām Aḥmad. It is likely that al-Qāsim heard some three thousand fascicles from his father.
He also heard from: his uncle al-Ṣāʾin; Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Ḥubūbī; Ḥamzah ibn Karrūs; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Dārānī; Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭāhir al-Khushūʿī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd; Abū al-Barakāt al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥārithī; Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn Muqātil; his brother ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar; Faḍāʾil ibn al-Ḥasan; Abū al-ʿAshāʾir Muḥammad ibn Khalīl; the vizier al-Falakī; Abū Naṣr Ghālib ibn Aḥmad; Naṣr ibn Qāsim al-Maqdisī, known as al-Mulqin; Ḥuffāẓ ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ghassānī; Maḥfūẓ ibn Ṣaṣrā al-Taghlibī; Muḥammad ibn Kāmil ibn Daysam; and ʿAlī ibn