Ibn Ḥajar remarks: “He remained constantly in Ibn Kathīr’s company, recording hadith notes from him—most of them related to the Ṣaḥīḥ.”(1)
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Muḥammad ibn Bahādur ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī the Turk, d. 794 AH. Ibn Ḥajar writes:
“After journeying to Damascus he studied hadith with Ibn Kathīr and read to him the latter’s Abridgment of the Sciences of Ḥadīth. When Ibn Kathīr died he mourned him with two verses:
The seekers of knowledge grieved at your loss,
shedding tears in torrents that never run dry.
Had they mixed the water of those tears with blood,
it would still be too little, O son of Kathīr.”(2) -
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAnqah, Abū Jaʿfar al-Baskari, later al-Madani, d. 804 AH. Ibn al-ʿImād says: “He transmitted from Ibn Rāfiʿ and from Ibn Kathīr.”(3)
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Saʿd ibn Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf, Saʿd al-Dīn al-Nawāwī, d. 805 AH. Al-Nuʿaymī notes: “He studied under Ibn Kathīr, read to him his work Ikhtiṣār ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth, and Ibn Kathīr authorized him to give fatwas.”(4)
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Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaḍir, Shams al-Dīn al-Zubayrī al-ʿĀyzarī al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʿī, born in Jerusalem 724 AH, d. 808 AH. Al-Sakhāwī records: “He entered Damascus and there studied under Ibn Kathīr, and so forth.”(5)
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Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Riḍwān, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥarīrī al-Dimashqī, known as al-Salāwī, d. 813 AH. Al-Sakhāwī states: “He auditioned hadith with Taqī ibn Rāfiʿ and with Ibn Kathīr, and read to them both.”(6)
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ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlwān ibn Ṣabrah ibn Mahdī ibn Ḥarīz, Abū al-Ḥasan—some call him Abū Zayd—al-Radmawī al-Zubaydī, who later took the name ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, d. 813 AH. Al-Sakhāwī reports: “He heard from al-Yāfiʿī, Shaykh Khalīl, and Ibn Kathīr.”(7)