From al-Karūkhī, then after him it passed to his son, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Muḥāribī the Qurʾān-reader, who had heard it together with his father from al-Karūkhī.

Al-Karūkhī recorded his chain of transmission to al-Tirmidhī on the first folio before the chapters on purification, saying: “We were informed by the judge, the imam, the ascetic Abū ʿĀmir Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī—may God have mercy on him—by reading to him while I was listening, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year four hundred and eighty-two, and we were informed by the jurist shaykh Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tiryāqī, and the shaykh Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Abī Ḥāmid al-Ghūrajī—may God have mercy on them both—by reading to them while I was listening, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year four hundred and eighty-one. They said: We were informed by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Jarrāḥ al-Jarrāḥī al-Marwazī, who said: We were informed by Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥbūb ibn Fuḍayl al-Maḥbūbī al-Marwazī, who said: We were informed by the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Sawra ibn Mūsā al-Tirmidhī—may God have mercy on them all…”

A group heard this copy from al-Karūkhī, among them its owner Abū al-ʿAbbās and his son Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad the Qurʾān-reader, and others whose names were recorded on the folio preceding the title page. The hearing of this copy was completed over several sessions with the reading of Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī, the last of which was on Thursday, the twenty-third of Dhū al-Qaʿda in the year five hundred and forty-seven of the Hijra—that is, one year before the death of al-Karūkhī, for he passed away—may God have mercy on him—in the year five hundred and forty-eight.