Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ismāʿīl, son of al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb—al-Malik al-Kāmil, Nāṣir al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī—d. 727 AH. Ibn Kathīr said: “He attended many audition sessions; we read to him, and he had memorised an excellent historical chronicle” (1).

Ḥamzah ibn Muʾayyad al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Asʿad al-Tamīmī al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Qalānisī, d. 729 AH. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr said: “He received ḥadīth from a number of scholars, transmitted them, and we too heard from him” (2).

ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Qūnawī al-Tabrīzī, d. 729 AH. Ibn Kathīr received from him a mashyakha between 723 and 729 AH, when al-Qūnawī came to Damascus to serve as judge (3).

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Azdi al-Gharnaṭī al-Andalusī, d. 730 AH. Ibn Kathīr heard Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from him, by his own recitation, in nine sittings during which he read his entire copy aloud (4).

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr Allah, Jamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Tamīmī al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Qalānisī, d. 731 AH. Ibn Kathīr heard from him a mashyakha that Fakhr al-Dīn al-Baʿlabakkī compiled for him (5).

Sulaymān ibn ʿUmar ibn Sālim ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿUthmān, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Azraʿī, d. 734 AH. Ibn Kathīr heard from him a mashyakha that al-Barzalī produced for him, containing narrations from twenty-two teachers (6).

ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allah, Tāj al-Dīn, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Lakhmī al-Iskandarānī, widely known as “Ibn al-Fākihānī,” d. 734 AH. Ibn Kathīr heard from him when he came to Damascus in 730 AH, during the tenure of the Chief Judge al-Akhnāʾī; he lodged him in Dār al-Saʿādah and remarked: “We listened to him and in his company” (7).