Regarding the hadith from him, he studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq. Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī said: al-Muʾtaman resided in Herat for ten years, read extensively, and copied out al-Tirmidhī six times. He died in Ṣafar of the year five hundred and seven in Baghdad.

7 — Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Sayyār ibn Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār al-Harawī, the shaykh, the imam, the jurist, the long-lived one, the authority (musnid) of Khurāsān, Sharf al-Dīn al-Kinānī al-Ḥanafī, the judge. He was born in the year five hundred and seventy-five. He had an authorization (ijāzah) from Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī and Abū al-Qāsim al-Khalīlī. He was a jurist, a debater, virtuous, religious, of good conduct, natural in his movements, avoiding affectation, and of sound disposition. He died in the year five hundred and seventy-two.

8 — Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣaydalānī, the venerable long-lived shaykh, the authority (musnid) of his time. He had an authorization (ijāzah) from Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī and from Abū ʿĀmir al-Azdī. The high rank of the chain of transmission (ʿulūw al-isnād) ended with him. He died in the year five hundred and sixty-eight.

9 — Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥammādī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Naḍr ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, son of the jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the jurist al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, son of the caliph of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace—