the Damascene scribe, who narrated from al-Khushūʿī.

In that same year there also died: the hadith scholar and instructor of the people of Jerusalem, Muḥibb al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥanbalī, aged forty;

likewise, the hadith authority Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barakāt ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khushūʿī al-Damascene, the weaver, eighty-five years old, who transmitted from his father, from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, and from ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Najjār;

and Shaykh ʿAfīf Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Raḥmah ibn Abī al-Ghayth al-Khayyāṭ;

and the hadith authority Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qazwīnī al-Ḥalabī, aged eighty-six, who narrated from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī;

and the righteous Abū al-Karam Lāḥiq ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Qāsim al-Artāḥī, later known as al-Miṣrī, who had heard hadith from his grand-uncle Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Artāḥī;

and the shaykh, jurist, and Chief Judge Ṣadr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Sanī al-Dawlah.

337 – Ibn al-Hanī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Baghdādī, the Tailor: a Qurʾān reciter, master of proper articulation, hadith scholar, and seasoned traveller. He was also known as Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Baghdādī, the tailor.

He received hadith from Ibn Ṭabarzadh, Ibn al-Akhdar, Ibn Manīnā, and—while in Damascus—from al-Kindī and his peers.

He mastered the ten canonical modes of recitation under the pupils of Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī, such as Ibn al-Nāqid and others.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muẓaffar al-Baʿqūbī recited the Qurʾān to him, and those who transmitted from him included al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, ʿAlī ibn Mamdūd al-Bandannījī, and others.