Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Hādī, Shaykh Abd al-Samad al-Muqri, Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Jafarī, Abd al-Rahīm ibn al-Zajjāj, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Wāiz, and a number of others. Zaynab bint al-Kamāl became the sole surviving person to transmit from her by authorization.

She was born in Safar 554 AH and died in Safar 647 AH(1).

4—Abū al-Khayr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Bāghbān al-Muqaddir:

He was the long-lived and highly trustworthy shaykh Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Qāsim ibn Abd Allah ibn Alī ibn Ishāq ibn Sindār, al-Isfahānī, the surveyor(2), engineer, muezzin, and Sufi, who was widely known as al-Bāghbān(3).

He heard from Abū Amr Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Mandah, Abū Īsā ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr ibn Mājah, al-Mutahhar al-Buzzānī, Abū al-Tayyib Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sallah—the companion of Abū Alī ibn al-Baghdādī—the eminent scholar Abū Nasr ibn al-Sabbāgh at al-Rusliyya, Abū Mansūr ibn Shukrūyah, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Simsār, Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad al-Qaffāl, and Hakīm ibn Muhammad al-Isfarāyīnī, under whom he heard the Musnad of al-Shāfiī.

He narrated in the presence of the hadith master Abū al-Alā in Hamadhān and Isfahān.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Samānī, Jāmi ibn Khumārtāsh, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abī al-Fath al-Najjār, and others.

The last to transmit from him by authorization were Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah and Ajībah al-Bāqadāriyyah.

Ibn Nuqtah said, “He was trustworthy, and his transmission was based on verified audition.”