Tawbah al-Halabī; al-Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān al-Rasʿanī; Sulaymān, the grandson (through his daughter) of Shurahbīl; and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Nasāʾī, Abū ʿAwānah al-Isfarāyīnī, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and a number of others.
Ahmad died in 284 AH.
I later came across a note in the selections of ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAtakī of Antioch, in which he said:
“Abū Ṭāhir ibn Fīl narrated to us in the year 300 AH—he was the imam of our congregational mosque and he passed away in 311 AH.” Al-ʿAtakī then went on to relate:
“Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Fīl narrated to me, saying: ‘My grandfather, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Kathīr al-Ṣūrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Burd, Aḥmad ibn Hāshim, and Isḥāq ibn Khaldūn ibn Marthad al-Bālisī narrated to us.’ ”
Al-ʿAtakī also reported from Ibn Fīl’s paternal uncle, stating:
“Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm informed us in Antioch in the year 299 AH.” He, in turn, transmitted from a group of shaykhs.
This Ahmad was the son of the khaṭīb of Damascus and its foremost scholar.
300 – Abū al-Walīd Hishām ibn ʿAmmār ibn Nuṣayr *
The imam, Qurʾān-reciter, ḥadith master, and venerable elder—Abū ʿAbd-Allāh al-Sulamī, al-Dimashqī.
He was the last person to have recited the Qurʾān to his own father before the latter’s death, and he also transmitted from him.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Hāshim ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Muʾaddib, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ḥumayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Warrāq, and others.
He and Abū Bakr—Muḥammad ibn Khuraym the ḥadith scholar—both died on the same day, on