Al-Karūkhī also participated in listening to the three shaykhs whom the ḥāfiẓ al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī, Abū Naṣr, explicitly named in his chain of transmission for this book at the beginning of the manuscript copy, as he himself stated in his copy, mentioning therein al-Karūkhī's listening with him in Herat. Portions of the Ẓāhiriyya manuscript were transmitted from his copy, as is explicitly noted on the final folio of the fifth volume.

From Abū ʿĀmir al-Azdī alone, Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Sayyār ibn Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār al-Harawī took [the work], as appears in one of the chains of the final listening in this manuscript copy, and in one of the listenings of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar transmitted through him(1). Likewise, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣaydalānī [took it], but by ijāza, and his transmission was mentioned by al-Qāsim ibn Yūsuf al-Tujībī(2).

As for the transmitters from Abū al-Fatḥ al-Karūkhī in this manuscript copy, they are numerous—amounting to approximately twenty-seven men. Among the most famous of them are the owner of the copy, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kawthar al-Muḥāribī, and his son Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Muqriʾ, both of whom we have already provided biographical entries for earlier.

A group of eminent ḥuffāẓ also transmitted from al-Karūkhī whose names are not mentioned in this manuscript copy, including the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, who had a copy in his own handwriting that will be discussed in detail later, God willing. Also among them are the musnid Abū Ḥafṣ Ibn Ṭabarzad, and Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Karam ibn—

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(1) "Al-Mujmaʿ al-Muʾassis" 1/101.
(2) "Mustafād al-Riḥla wa-al-Ightirāb" p. 46.