He narrated from: his paternal uncle al-Marrār ⦗1⦘, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Muḥammad ibn al-Muqriʾ, Aḥmad ibn Budayl, Abū Zurʿah, and many others. He also sat at the feet of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Dayzīl, who said, “I possess one hundred thousand hadiths from him.”

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad said, “My father copied a great deal from him, and I too met him.”

The senior scholars of our town transmitted from him, and he was trustworthy, distinguished, and God-fearing. My father related, “I heard him say, ‘Never have I shown such perseverance in anything as I have in the pursuit of hadith.’”

I say: his death was long ago; he passed away before Ibn Abī Ḥātim ⦗2⦘.

157 – al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan *

The shaykh, the scholar, the righteous man, the foremost musnid of Khurāsān: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Khalīl al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Qaṭṭān.

He heard hadith from: Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr Zāj, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam, and their peers.

Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣibghī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, and Abū—