and he also recited the Qur’an to Hubayrah al-Tammār (1), a direct pupil of Hafs. The scholars who learned the variant readings—the ḥurūf—from him include Ibn Mujāhid, Ibn Shanbūdh, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAjlān. Those who transmitted ḥadith from him were Ibn Ṣāʿid, Jaʿfar al-Khuldī, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū Bakr ibn Khallād, and others. Al-Dāraqutnī and additional authorities considered him reliable. He died in Muḥarram 286 AH. Earlier, in the year two-hundred-and-sixty-odd AH, he had been in Damascus among the resident shaykhs.

206 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Dimashqī al-Kharrāz *
Spelled with a rāʾ followed by a zāʾ; his kunya was Abū Bakr al-Murrī. He narrated ḥadith from al-Firyābī, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Ḥimṣī, and a number of others. Narrations from him were taken by Ibn Jawṣā, Abū ʿAwānah, and others.

207 – al-Kharrāz, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī **
The shaykh of the Sufis and an exemplar, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī, known as al-Kharrāz.