and Ibn Abī al-Durr, al-Makīn ʿAbd Allāh al-Asmar, al-Sharaf Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣawwāf, ʿAbd al-Naṣīr al-Maryūṭī, and Abū al-Qāsim the Dukkālī Suḥnūn.

Among those who recited to him in certain other transmissions were: al-Niẓām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Tibrīzī, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan al-Qābisī, and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAṭiyya.

Those who related hadith from him include: Abū al-Hudā ʿĪsā ibn Yaḥyā al-Sabtī, the qāḍī ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥajrī, ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī ibn ʿAbd al-Naṣīr al-Anṣārī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Kaddūf, and several others.

By way of general licence (ijāzah) he authorised ʿAlī ibn Sīmā, Muḥammad ibn Mashriq, and a number of others.

He was counted among the leading scholars and compiled for himself a separate register of his teachers (mashyakha).

He died (1) on the twenty-fifth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 636 AH.

29 – Ibn al-Sabbāk, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī*

The shaykh, jurist, hadith transmitter, and deputy of the judges, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, known as Ibn al-Sabbāk al-Baghdādī, the ward of Azhar ibn al-Sabbāk—the very one who enabled him to study and transmit.

He heard hadith from Abū al-Fath ibn al-Baṭṭī and Abū al-Maʿālī ibn al-Laḥḥās;