Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥurḍī, Wahbat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAṣāʾidī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣayrafī, and several others.

Narrated from him were: al-Barzalī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Ṣarīfīnī, Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāʾīnī, al-Mursī, al-Bakrī, ʿUmar al-Karmānī, and a number of others.

By written authorisation he also transmitted to Abū al-Faḍl Ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn, and Zaynab bint Kindi.

Among the works he personally auditioned were the Musnad of Abū ʿAwānah, through Abū al-Asʿad ibn al-Qushayrī, and the collection al-Zuhriyyāt of al-Dhuhlī, through Wajīh.

I have copied from the handwriting of al-Isfarāʾīnī: “The Imām, Mufti of Khurāsān, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qāsim ibn al-Ṣaffār, informed us….” He then cited a hadith and added:

“I have not seen in Khurāsān any shaykh to rival this Shihāb al-Dīn in forbearance, learning, and mastery of the school. I heard that he taught al-Ghazālī’s al-Wasīṭ forty times to the general public, apart from his private tutorials.”

He went on: “The Turks entered Nishapur in 617 AH, but they could not take it; their advance commander was felled by a stray arrow, so they withdrew. They returned in 618 AH, captured it, devastated it, and massacred its men and women—save those whom Allah willed—and our shaykh al-Qāsim ibn al-Ṣaffār was martyred in that onslaught.”

79 – Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Iṣbahānī*

The jurist, Imām, and ḥāfiẓ: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Iṣbahānī, the Ḥanbalī, known as al-Mufīd of Isfahān.