al-Zaʿfarānī; Abū Ḥātim; Abū Zurʿah; Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī; Abū Bakr al-Ṣāghānī; Ibn Abī al-Dunyā; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd al-Marwazī; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Barāthī; Mūsā ibn Hārūn; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥulwānī; Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazrah; ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ghaylān; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs ibn Kāmil; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī; Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣūfī; and a great many others.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Mahrī said: “Abū Bakr ibn Abī Ayyūb narrated to us; I heard my father say, ‘I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd say: I saw al-Aʿmash, but I did not record anything from him.’” (1)
Mūsā ibn al-Ḥasan al-Saqalī (2) reported that ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd said, “I reached Basra in the year 156 AH, and Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah was still alive.” (3)
Niftawayh (4) remarked, “ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd was ten years older than Baghdad, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī was six years older than Sāmarrāʾ.” (5)
(1) Tarikh Baghdad, 11/360; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 959.
(2) The gentilic derives from Siqiliyya, the Mediterranean island of Sicily. It can be pronounced with either the emphatic s (sad) or the plain s (sin), yielding saqli or siqli. Al-Samani, al-Ansab, 8/80, vocalises it with a fathah on both the sad and the qaf and ends with a lam; Ibn al-Athir in al-Lubab and al-Suyuti in Lub al-Lubab follow the same pattern. Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Ayan, 3/215, concurs but notes that the lam is doubled. Yaqut, Mujam, 3/416, reads it with three kasras and a doubled lam, the ya likewise being doubled. Some writers prefer the sin, while most inhabitants of Sicily open both the sad and the lam.
(3) Tarikh Baghdad, 11/360; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 959.
(4) He is Abu Abd Allah Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Arafa al-Ataki al-Azdi, who died in 323 AH.
(5) Tarikh Baghdad, 11/360; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 959. Mujam al-Buldan, 1/457, notes that Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah began building Baghdad in 145 AH and took up residence there in 149 AH.