the ḥadith master who resided in Mecca. He was one of the leading authorities on transmitted reports.
He studied under Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, ʿAlī ibn Khushram, Maḥmūd ibn Ādam, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Hāshim al-Ṭūsī, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Qurʾān-reciter, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Karāmah, and many others, until the chain descends to the “Imam of the Imams,” Ibn Khuzaymah.
As for Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥākim’s claim that he heard from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar, and Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, I have found nothing that he transmitted from them and do not think he met them.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Muḥammad ibn Nāfiʿ al-Khuzaʿī of Mecca, Daʿlaj ibn Aḥmad al-Sijzī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn Jibrīl al-ʿAjīfī, and others, as well as Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr the judge.
Al-Ḥākim and other scholars spoke highly of him.
He died in 307 AH.
Among the reports that have reached me through his chain is the following isnād: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim told us; ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allah al-Khaṭīb told us; Shuhda the scribe informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Daqqāq informed us; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān informed us; Daʿlaj ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jārūd told us; al-Rabīʿ narrated to us; al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from