Chain of the manuscript as it appears in the first folio:

Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿammar ibn Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥassān ibn Ṭabarzad al-Baghdādī al-Muʾaddib informed us, by reading it to him while we were listening. It was said to him: Did Abū al-Badr Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿUmar al-Karkhī al-Sunnī inform you, by reading it to him while you were listening, on Friday, the twentieth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year five hundred and thirty-five, in Baghdad? And he affirmed it. It was said to him: Did Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thābit al-Khaṭīb inform you, by reading it to him while you were listening, on Sunday, the last day of al-Muḥarram of the year four hundred and sixty-three? And he affirmed it. He said: The judge Abū ʿUmar al-Qāsim ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshimī al-Baṣrī informed us, by my reading to him in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year four hundred and twelve. He said: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Luʾluʾī narrated to us. Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath ibn Isḥāq ibn Bashīr ibn Shaddād ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿĀmir al-Azdī al-Sijistānī al-Ḥāfiẓ narrated to us in al-Muḥarram of the year two hundred and seventy-five…

This chain was copied by the scribe from a copy belonging to one of Ibn Ṭabarzad's students, for the scribe is later, as appears from the date of the completion of the copying; between him and Ibn Ṭabarzad there are layers and generations.

The biographies of the men of this chain have already been presented in the chains of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar.