He likewise heard the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from al-Ḥākimī, and at the age of five he heard directly from his grandfather. He also received the Ṣaḥīḥ of Abū ʿAwānah from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥīrī, who took it from Abū Nuʿaym al-Mahrajānī; so states Ibn al-Walīd.

I add: he possessed forty awālī (elevated chains) and died in 546 AH.

• al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Shahhāmī
I say: This is all that Ibn al-Walīd recorded. He was a son of the cousin of Wajīh Ṣadr Raʾīs. He heard the third fascicle of al-Sirāj’s Musnad from Ibn al-Muḥibb, and al-Ḥākim’s treatise “The Forenoon Prayer,” which he transmitted through Ibn Khalaf from al-Ḥākim. He died in 545 AH.

• ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Khalaf ibn Ṭāhir al-Shahhāmī, known as al-Muʿaddal, Abū al-Muẓaffar
He heard from Ibn al-Muḥibb and from Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf, and died in 541 AH.

• ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir al-Shahhāmī
Ibn al-Walīd remarks: “A reliable scholar who acted as prompter for the shaykhs for many years; he then dictated and transmitted.” I add: “He possessed two collections entitled al-Arbaʿūn, both of which we heard.” He was lost in the disaster of 549 AH (1).

• Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Furāwī
A trustworthy scholar; he heard from his two grandfathers and obtained the Ṣaḥīḥ of Abū ʿAwānah, collated from three authorities.

• Abū Manṣūr Shahradār ibn Shīrawayh al-Daylamī al-Hamadhānī
He heard from his father Abū Shujāʿ, from Abū al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbdūs, and from Ibn Ḥamd al-Dūnī. He died in 558 AH.