al-Munādī; ʿAbbās al-Dūrī; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Shabīb al-Rabaʿī; and Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib, who was the last of his teachers from whom he narrated. (1)
Those who transmitted from him were: Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd, and Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān.
He lived to a very advanced age and died in 353 AH.
The last person to relate his ḥadith with an elevated chain was al-Shihāb al-Ḥajjār, in the compilation entitled Juzʾ al-Najjād.
- Ibn Abī al-ʿAqab ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī al-Dimashqī *
The shaykh, the imām, and the ḥadith master of Damascus: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shākir ibn Zāmil al-Hamdānī, known as Ibn Abī al-ʿAqab.
He heard from Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī; al-Qāsim ibn Mūsā ibn al-Ashyab; Aḥmad ibn al-Muʿallā; Anas ibn al-Salm; al-Ḥasan ibn Jarīr al-Ṣūrī; and ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, whom he encountered during the pilgrimage.
He recited the Qur’an in the reading of ʿĀṣim to Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Shākir.
Muẓaffar ibn Aḥmad al-Dīnawarī read to him.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mandah, Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū Naṣr ibn Hārūn, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Mashmāsh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yāsir al-Jawbarī, and ʿAbd