and al-Ṭabarānī, Ibn ʿAdī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah, and others besides them. It was said that he was deaf. He died in 302 AH, in Damascus.
104 – Ibn Qīrāṭ, Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUdhrī *
A shaykh, scholar, and ḥadith transmitter: Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Qīrāṭ al-ʿUdhrī, of Damascus.
He narrated from Sulaymān, the son of Shurahbīl’s daughter; Ḥarmalah ibn Yaḥyā; Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir; Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; and others of their rank.
He was well-travelled in search of knowledge and widely versed in it.
Among those who reported from him are Ibn Jawṣāʾ, Abū ʿAwānah, Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqib, Ibn Hārūn, Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah, al-Ṭabarānī, and—last of them—Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣiḥ.
He died in 297 AH.
105 – Ibn Abī Ghaylān, ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Thaqafī **
The shaykh and meticulous ḥadith transmitter Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ghaylān al-Thaqafī, a Baghdadi.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī, Abū Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī, and a number of other scholars.