and he would engage in mutual review of their narrations, often surpassing many of the other ḥuffāẓ.

Al-Ḥākim goes on to say: “He also heard, in Wāsiṭ, from Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Azraq and Isḥāq ibn Ḥātim.”

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He was precise, a ḥāfiẓ, highly proficient, widely travelled and widely-versed in ḥadith; he would debate the ḥuffāẓ and prevail over them.”

Al-Ḥākim further relates: “I heard Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ say: ‘Abū Quraysh the ḥāfiẓ, reliable and trustworthy, narrated to us.’”

He also states: “Abū Quraysh died in Quhustān in the year 313 AH.”

I add: In that same year died—
• Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, compiler of the Musnad;
• the hadith scholar of Kūfah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī;
• the hadith scholar of Sarakhs, Abū Lubayd Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Sāmī;
• the hadith scholar of Aleppo, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī;
• the hadith scholar of Nasā, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿAwn al-Nasawī;
• the hadith scholar of Damascus, Jumāhar ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī al-Zamlakānī;
• the musnid and hadith scholar of Nīshāpūr, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Māsarjīsī;
• and the musnid Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sābūr al-Daqqāq.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, in his written work, informed us; Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bālūyī informed us; Abū Quraysh Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah narrated to us; ʿAbdah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaffār narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumrān narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us; Bayān ibn Bishr narrated: