and Ibn Abī Jarādah, together with his brother ʿAbd al-Muḥsin; Isḥāq, Ayyūb, and Muḥammad, the sons of Ibn al-Naḥḥās; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ismāʿīl, and Ibrāhīm, the sons of Ibn al-ʿAjamī, as well as their in-law Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Naṣībī; his paternal aunt Nakhwah (1); Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the schoolmaster; al-ʿAfīf Isḥāq al-Āmidī; Abū Ḥāmid the muʾadhdhin; and others besides them. The last of them to receive from him was Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAjamī in Aleppo, and his ijāzah (formal permission) is preserved with Zaynab bint al-Kamāl in Damascus.

He was of pleasing character and commendable conduct. For his own use he compiled al-Thamāniyyāt (The Octads) and several high-isnād fascicles—such as the ʿAwālī of Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, the ʿAwālī of al-Aʿmash, the ʿAwālī of Abū Ḥanīfah, the ʿAwālī of Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, and What Brings Together Four Companions in a Single Chain—along with other works.

I heard a large amount of hadith from him, though not even a tenth of what he possessed. He meets the criteria of the Ṣaḥīḥ owing to his standing, sound knowledge, keen understanding, careful writing, truthfulness, and integrity. The people of Aleppo loved and honoured him, narrated profusely from him, and he endowed his books as waqf; yet they were scattered and plundered in the Aleppo calamity of the year 658 AH, during which his brother, the musnid Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl, was killed. He had already had him audition before a number of scholars, and he alone possessed certain fascicles such as al-Ṭabarānī’s Muʿjam from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī and others.

Their third brother, Yūnus ibn Khalīl al-Ādamī, died alongside his ḥāfiẓ brother. He had narrated from al-Būṣayrī and a group of scholars; Ibn al-Khallāl and others transmitted from him to us.

Abū al-Ḥajjāj—may Allah have mercy on him—was firmly committed to the Sunnah and to goodness.

I was informed that he disapproved