Nasr ibn Nasr al-ʿUkbarī possessed a number of lofty isnāds. Among them were the large first volume of the Hadith of al-Mukhlis and the Mishyakha of Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān transmitted through him. He died in 552 AH. (1)
The erudite scholar (2) Abū Manṣūr Mawhūb ibn Aḥmad al-Jawālīqī heard extensively from Ibn al-Busrī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr, and the preacher of Anbār ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad. He died in 540 AH.
Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Sahl al-Karūkhī, the Ṣūfī and transmitter of the Jāmiʿ, was upright and trustworthy, earning a modest livelihood by copying manuscripts. He died in 548 AH.
Abū Bakr Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faraj, nephew of al-Ṭawīl and shaykh of Hamadhān, received Sunan Abī Dāwūd from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Bajalī—who reported from Abū Bakr ibn Lāl, who in turn reported from Ibn Dāsa—and studied with many others. He died in 542 AH at the age of ninety.
Among the other hadith specialists were Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Samīn, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kātib, Abū Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī—the one from whom ʿAbd al-Qādir the ḥāfiẓ narrated—as well as Ṭāhir ibn Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir al-Shahhāmī, his brother al-Faḍl, and their cousin Muḥammad ibn Wajīh—Allah, exalted is He, knows best.
Al-Nishtibrī had sent the ijāzah to Ibn al-Walīd in 636 AH, whereupon the latter discussed most of these scholars on his behalf, and we never saw him object to any of it. He was a scholar, a man of