and ʿAli ibn Bahr al-Qaṭṭān, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī, and his brother—Muḥammad—ʿUqbah ibn Mukram al-Kūfī, Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, al-Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān al-Jazarī, Shujāʿ ibn Makhlad, and Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said: “I heard the Chief Judge, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hāshimī, say:
‘These are the titles of the works authored by ʿAli ibn al-Madīnī:
• al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Kunā – eight parts;
• al-Ḍuʿafāʾ – ten parts;
• al-Mudallīsūn – five parts;
• Awwalu man faḥaṣa ʿan al-Rijāl – one part;
• al-Ṭabaqāt – ten parts;
• Man Rawā ʿAmman Lam Yarah – one part;
• ʿIlal al-Musnad – thirty parts;
• al-ʿIlal min Riwayat Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī – fourteen parts;
• ʿIlal Ḥadīth Ibn ʿUyaynah – thirteen parts;
• Man Lā Yuḥtajju Bihi wa Lā Yasquṭu – two parts;
• Man Nazala Mina al-Ṣaḥābah al-Nawāḥī – five parts;
• al-Tārīkh – ten parts;
• al-ʿArḍ ʿAlā al-Muḥaddith – two parts;
• Man Ḥaddatha wa Rajaʿ ʿAnhu – two parts;
• Suʾāl Yaḥyā wa Ibn Mahdī ʿan al-Rijāl – five parts;
• Suʾālāt Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān – two parts;
• al-Asānīd al-Shādhah – two parts;
• al-Thiqāt – ten parts;
• Ikhtilāf al-Ḥadīth – five parts;
• al-Ashribah – three parts;
• al-Gharīb – five parts;
• al-Ikhwah wa-l-Akhawāt – three parts;
• Man ʿUrifa Bighayr Ism Abīh – two parts;
• Man ʿUrifa Bilaqabih;
• al-ʿIlal al-Mutafarriqah – thirty parts;
• Madhāhib al-Muḥaddithīn – two parts.’
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb then remarked: “All of these books have disappeared; we have only seen four of them, or five.”
23 – Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Asadī (Kh, D), the son of Muṣʿab, grandson of the Commander of the Believers ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn