and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍāʾirī, ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Muḥammad, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Suwayd, the instructor—the mention of these three is found only in Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī (1); and Allah knows best.

Those who reported from him include ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Khiraqī and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Suwayd.

Al-Dāraqutnī declared him reliable.

Ibn Abī Hāshim said: “I recited the entire Qurʾān to al-Ushnānī; he was pious, virtuous, and precise, and he told me, ‘I read to ʿUbayd ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ.’”

Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī said: “Al-Ushnānī stopped giving recitation lessons ten years before his death.”

Thus spoke al-Ahwāzī; but if this is correct, how can the claims of Abū Aḥmad and al-Ghaḍāʾirī that they recited to him stand? May Allah disgrace falsehood and those who propagate it.

Al-Ushnānī died in Muḥarram of the year 307 AH.

130 – Ibn Abī al-Dumayk, Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī*

The shaykh, the scholar, the truthful one: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Khālid ibn Abī al-Dumayk al-Baghdādī.

He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, ʿUbayd Allah al-ʿAyshī, and Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād Sablān.

Among those who transmitted from him are Jaʿfar al-Khuldī, Mukhlid ibn Jaʿfar al-Bāqarḥī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar.