That is so. And I have not seen any of our trustworthy shaykhs agree with al-Mu'taman, for I asked the likes of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and Ibn Nāṣir, and they praised him highly, testifying to his pursuit of knowledge, his truthfulness, his trustworthiness, and the abundance of his hearing of hadith. Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī said of him: "He is the righteous, trustworthy shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn. He was solid, insightful, chaste, and precise. He accompanied the hadith masters and was trained alongside them." He died in the year five hundred, at the age of ninety.(1)

6 - Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Siwār al-Baghdādī, the Qur'an reader, the blind one, one of the most skilled. Al-Dhahabī said of him: "The imam, the Qur'an reader of his age." He was born in the year four hundred and twelve. He read in the various recitations under a number of the senior shaykhs of his time. Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī said: "A Ḥanafī, trustworthy, virtuous; he devoted himself to teaching the Qur'an and transmitting hadith." Ibn Nāṣir said: "Trustworthy, noble, precise, solid." Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: "He was trustworthy, reliable, a Qur'an reader, of good acquisition; a group of people completed the Book of God upon him, and he wrote in his own hand much of the hadith." He died in the year four hundred and ninety-six in Baghdad.(2)

7 - Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hawzanī al-Ishbīlī, Abū al-Qāsim, the maternal uncle of Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī. He traveled to the East, performed the pilgrimage, and heard hadith in al-Mahdiyya, Alexandria, and Egypt. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: "He was a jurist consulted in his own land, of high standing in his transmission, mindful of reports and anecdotes, of good--------------------------------------------
(1) See "Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ" 19/213–216.
(2) "Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ" 19/225–226.