ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Muslim al-Tujībī; and Muḥammad ibn al-Layth al-Jawharī (1), Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaddhāʾ (2), Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jārūd al-Iṣbahānī (3), Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bakhtarī al-Ḥannāʾī (4), and al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayqal al-Miṣrī.

285 – Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Naysābūrī * (Kh) (5)
The ḥāfiẓ, the meticulous critic, the erudite scholar, Abū al-Faḍl al-Naysābūrī, one of the leading imams and authors.

Al-Ḥākim said: “Whenever Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī came to Nīshāpūr, he lodged with the two brothers Aḥmad and Muḥammad, the sons of al-Naḍr.”

He (al-Bukhārī) narrated from both of them in his Ṣaḥīḥ; their chain of transmission and their audition are identical, and the two are on the same level.

He (Aḥmad) heard ḥadith from Hudbah ibn Khālid, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, Sahl ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAskarī, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Isḥāq ibn Rāhūyah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muʿādh, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah, and many others named by al-Ḥākim, who then remarked: “Aḥmad is outstanding in his knowledge of the Basran transmitters.”

Narrated from him: al-Bukhārī, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akhram, Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣaydilānī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, and Abū