Allāh al-Balkhī al-Hindāwanī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Faḍālah, the Andalusian poet Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ al-Māriq, Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Sinān al-Ṣābiʾ, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Muzakkī, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mīkāl, the emir.
55 – Al-Rāmahurmuzī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalād
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and consummate scholar, leading ḥadith master among the non-Arabs, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalād al-Fārisī al-Rāmahurmuzī, the judge, author of the book Al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayna al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʿī (1) on the disciplines of ḥadith—what an excellent work it is!
It was said that al-Sallafī could scarcely part with the book; for a time in his life he kept it tucked inside his sleeve.
He heard ḥadith from his father, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Muṭayyinan al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū Ḥuṣayn al-Wādiʿī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Māzinī, Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn Ḥubbāb al-Jumaḥī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muthannā al-ʿAnbarī, ʿUbayd ibn Ghannām, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb the judge, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghaylān, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and many others after them.
He began pursuing this discipline in 290 AH while still a youth. He wrote, collected, authored works, and came to be acknowledged as the foremost among the scholars of ḥadith; his aforementioned book alone testifies to his rank as an imām.