only in service of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—so that I may relate his ḥadiths in a land where they are not ordinarily narrated.

Ibn al-Anmāṭī said: “A crowd assembled for him the like of which we have never known to gather for a listening session in Damascus before that; indeed, nothing comparable had ever come together for anyone who transmitted the Musnad.”

I (1) say: I heard it from him once in the city and once in the Muẓaffarī congregational mosque.

In that same year there died: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulṭān, the Qur’an-reciter, and Sitt al-Kuttāb bint al-Ṭarrāḥ.

227 – Ibn al-Qāriṣ, al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥarīmī*
The shaykh, centenarian, scholar, Qur’an reader, and hadith transmitter: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Ḥanīfa al-Ḥarīmī, blind, better known as Ibn al-Qāriṣ.

Ibn al-Dubaythī said: He was the last person to transmit from Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn anything of the Musnad (2), and I have been informed that he was descended from Imām Abū Ḥanīfa. He also heard from Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz and Abū ʿAlī al-Khazzāz, and he lost his sight late in life.

I say: Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn Khalīl, and Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ.

He granted authorisation to al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī.

Ibn al-Najjār (3) said: He read the variant Qur’anic readings under al-Mubārak ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Nāʿūrah,