—and the minister Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Falaki.
He also heard from: Abū al-Makārim ibn Hilāl; Abū al-Barakāt Khadir ibn Shibl, the preacher; Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn al-Mawāzinī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Barakah al-Ṣilḥī; and, in Alexandria, from Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Ibn ʿAwf, and others.
While in Egypt he received ḥadith from: ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allah al-Kāmilī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Raḥabī, ʿUthmān ibn Faraj, ʿAbd Allah ibn Barrī, and a group besides.
Those who narrated from him include al-Mundhirī (1), Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Balbān, Abū Ḥāmid Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Gharrafī, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī, Abū al-Hudā ʿĪsā al-Sabtī, and Yūsuf ibn Kurkik.
He granted ijāzah to Ibn Saʿd, Ibn al-Shīrāzī, and ʿĪsā al-Muṭaʿim.
Ibn Masdī states in his Muʿjam: “His personal conduct was not praiseworthy, but his audition is sound. He was the last to hear from al-Falaki. He divorced his wife and shut himself up in his house, so I narrated from him profusely for my son.”
He died on 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 637 AH.
I (the author) say: He was born on 10 Ṣafar 555 AH (2).
31 – Ibn Dulaf, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, imam, Qurʾān reciter and expert in tajwīd, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf ibn