The author of *Naṣb al-Rāyah*, the author of *al-Mishkāh*, the author of *Bulūgh al-Marām*, and other muḥaddithūn [relied upon it]. The imam, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan, known as Ibn ʿAsākir al-Dimashqī, took this recension in his book *al-Ishrāf ʿalā Maʿrifat al-Aṭrāf*, until al-Suyūṭī said that the recension of al-Luʾluʾī is among the most authentic recensions(1).

We have obtained, praise be to God, three photographed copies from handwritten originals transmitted via the recension of al-Luʾluʾī.

2. Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Dāsah(2) al-Baṣrī al-Tammār. al-Dhahabī described him, saying: "The shaykh, the trustworthy, the learned." He said: "He was the last person to transmit the *Sunan* in full from Abū Dāwūd." Likewise, Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī said that his recension is the most complete of the recensions, and Ibn ʿAṭiyyah said the same in his *Fihrist*. Abū al-Ṭayyib al-ʿAẓīmābādī said: "It is well-known in the lands of the Maghrib"(3). We say: Among the Eastern scholars who relied upon it are the imam Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī al-Jaṣṣāṣ, who died in the year 370 AH; the imam Abū Sulaymān Ḥamd ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭṭābī, who died in the year 388 AH; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī, who died in the year 430 AH; and the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī, who died in the year 458 AH.

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(1) *ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd* 14/135.
(2) al-Muʿallimī said in the introduction to *al-Ikmāl* by Ibn Mākūlā, p. 60: "There are four names regarding which the scholars have stated that their final letter remains a *hāʾ* whether paused upon or connected: Mājah, Dāsah, Mandah, and Saydah."
(3) Ibn Khayr al-Ishbīlī in his *Fihrist*, p. 106; Ibn ʿAṭiyyah in his *Fihrist*, p. 159; al-Dhahabī in *al-Siyar* 15/538; and Abū al-Ṭayyib in *ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd* 14/135.