, al-Bazzār; the judge al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Sijzī; the judge Yūsuf ibn al-Qāsim al-Mayānajī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī; Sahl ibn Shādhuwayh al-Bukhārī—who died before him; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda; Abū Saʿīd ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī ʿUthmān; Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAnbarī; Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān, the Qurʾān-reciter; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bāluwayh; Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ, the ascetic; Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Bāhilī; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—the father of Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥīrī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Māsarjasī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Shaybānī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān al-Ḥīrī; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad ibn Khuzaymah; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ḥajjājī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Samʿān, the preacher; Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Muzakkī—known as al-Ḥarbī—and many others besides. The last of them to die was Shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khaffāf al-Qanṭarī, who related a portion of his Musnad on his authority.
Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “He was one of the soundest and most reliable transmitters, wholly devoted to ḥadith, and he authored numerous books that are well known.”
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAsākir informed us—this was read aloud to him—saying: The muftī Abū Bakr al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Naysābūrī, known as Ibn al-Ṣaffār, narrated to us; Abū Bakr Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir al-Shahhāmī informed us in the year 539 AH, saying: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī, Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ismāʿīlī told us, saying:
Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khaffāf narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Thaqafī narrated to us;