Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Niʿmah, Shams al-Dīn al-Maqdisī, the Nābulusī Ḥanbalī, d. 737 AH: Ibn Kathīr heard from him in 733 AH many fascicles and select narrations (1).

ʿUmar ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Mihnī al-Basṭī, Fakhr al-Dīn, known as Ibn al-Bukhārī, d. 742 AH: Ibn Kathīr read to him the abridged mashyakha (2).

ʿIlm al-Dīn al-Jāwalī, d. 745 AH: Ibn Kathīr heard from him the Musnad of Imām al-Shāfiʿī when al-Jāwalī passed through Damascus on Tuesday, 25 Ṣafar 743 AH, en route to Ḥamāh to assume its deputy governorship. Ibn Kathīr examined his work on the Musnad along with his commentary on it and praised the excellence of its arrangement (3).

Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, Jamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Maqdisī, d. 754 AH: He was a devout, scrupulous scholar who loved ḥadīth and its people. He had heard Sunan Ibn Mājah from al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Badrān al-Nābulusī, and Ibn Kathīr in turn heard it from him (4).

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Juhanī, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Bārizī al-Ḥamawī, resident of Damascus, d. 755 AH: Ibn Kathīr heard from him the Ghaylāniyyāt (5), which he transmitted from Ghāzī al-Ḥalāwī.

Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Barakāt ibn Shams al-Dīn, commonly known as Ibn al-Khabbāz, the Ḥanbalī, d. 756 AH: Al-Mizzī, al-Dhahabī, al-Subkī, Ibn Jamāʿah, Ibn Rāfiʿ, Ibn Kathīr, and many others received ḥadīth from him (6).

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad, ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū ʿUmar Ibn Jamāʿah, d. 767 AH: Ibn Kathīr read to him, in his own voice, a large body of material when he arrived in Damascus at the end of Rajab 725 AH from