Qashmard; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī; Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib; Ibn Khuzaymah; and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbdash(1), Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ—both of them his contemporaries—Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥajjājī, al-Ḥākim, Ibn Mandah, and others.
Al-Ḥākim reports that Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ said, “Abū Zakariyyā has committed to memory branches of knowledge such that, were we charged with retaining even a portion of them, we would be unable to do so; I do not know that I have ever seen his equal.”(2)
Al-Ḥākim then added, “Abū Zakariyyā withdrew from people and refrained from attending scholarly gatherings for some thirteen years.”(3)
I heard him say: “The scholar of choice is the one who returns to a virtuous state: he eats what is wholesome and lawful, does not earn money through his knowledge, lets his knowledge be his adornment, and regards any wealth he possesses as a favor and bounty from Allah.”
I say: He died in Shawwal, 344 AH, at the age of seventy-six.
- Ibn Sinān — Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Dimashqī
The shaykh, imām, and trustworthy authority: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Sinān ibn al-Arkūn, their client, the Qurashī, of Damascus; the Sinān Bridge at Bāb Tūmā is named after his ancestor Sinān.(4)