Muḥammad ibn Sulayman al-Suʿlūkī; Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Mihrajānī; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, the Qur’an-reciter; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bālūyah al-Muzakkī; ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahdī al-Qushayrī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Isfarāyīnī, the reciter; Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sabʿī; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭahmānī; Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn, the reciter; the judge Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarashī al-Ḥīrī; Abū (1) Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥayd; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ṣayrafī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Baghdādī al-Ṭirāzī; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar al-Jurjānī; and a host of others besides them.

Abū Nuʿaym, the ḥāfiẓ, narrated from him in this world solely by way of ijāzah.

Al-Ḥākim said: He disliked being called “al-Aṣamm” (the Deaf), so, when he was with us, Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣibghī (2) would say instead, “al-Maʿqalī said….”

Deafness (3) only befell him after he returned from his journey. He was the leading traditionist of his time; no one disputed his integrity, the soundness of his auditions, or the careful recording of them by his father, Yaʿqūb the copyist. He also followed a commendable school of thought and was devout.

I have been informed that he gave the call to prayer in his mosque for seventy years.

Al-Ḥākim added: He was of fine character and generous in spirit. At times he would need something for his livelihood, so he would copy manuscripts and subsist on what his own hands earned. This was the very point for which some people criticized him—namely, that he used to take remuneration for