And a small fascicle of the Amālī and the public reading sessions reached Ibn al-Shihnah through his chain of transmission.
341 – al-ʿAṭashī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Yaḥyā
The shaykh, trustworthy transmitter: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmr al-Baghdādī, known as al-ʿAṭashī (1) and also as al-Adamī (2).
He was born in 255 AH.
He heard hadith from: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī, ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Māhān Zanbaqa, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥunaynī.
Among those who narrated from him are: Ibn Razqūyah, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Ṭalḥah ibn al-Ṣaqr, and many others.
Al-Burqānī regarded him as reliable (3).
Al-Khaṭīb (4) said, “He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 349 AH, and he was trustworthy.”
342 – al-Qaṣṣār, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā
The shaykh, long-lived: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṣṣār, al-Iṣfahānī.