Introduction

Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh

Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar

Isḥāq b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

Aḥmad b. Rashad b. Khuthaym

Ibrāhīm b. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-ʿAlā, al-Madanī

Umayya b. ʿAlī, al-Qaysī

Ismāʿīl b. Mihrān b. Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr, al-Sakūnī

Idrīs b. Ziyād

Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq

Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī

Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sayyār

Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd b. Ḥammād b. Saʿīd b. Mihrān

Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Hayyan, al-Hamdānī

Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abān b. Marrār

Aḥmad b. Mihrān

Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, al-Ṭabarī, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Khalīlī

Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. ʿAlī, al-Diʿbilī [ibn Akhī Diʿbil]

Aḥmad b. ʿAlī, Abū al-ʿAbbās, al-Rāzī

Bakr b. Ṣāliḥ al-Rāzī

Bakr b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā, al-ʿAṣarī

Tamīm b. ʿAbdullāh b. Tamīm, al-Qarashī

Jaḥdar b. al-Mughayra, al-Ṭā’ī

Jamāʿa b. Saʿd,  al-Juʿfī

Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Mufaḍḍal

Jaʿfar b. Ismāʿīl, al-Munqirī

Jaʿfar b. Maʿrūf, Abū al-Faḍl, al-Samarqandī

Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Mālik b. ʿĪsā b. Sābūr

al-Ḥasan b. Rāshid

Ḥumayd b. Shuʿayb, al-Shuʿaybī, al-Hamdānī

Ḥudhayfa b. Manṣūr b. Kathīr b. Salama, al-Khuzāʿī, Abū Muḥammad

al-Ḥasan b. Ḥudhayfa b. Manṣūr

al-Ḥusayn b. Mihrān b. Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr, Abū ʿAbdillāh

al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza

al-Ḥasan b. al-ʿAbbās b. al-Ḥarīsh, al-Rāzī, Abū Muḥammad

al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī ʿUthmān, Abū Muḥammad

al-Ḥasan b. Asad, al-Ṭafāwī, al-Baṣrī, Abū Muḥammad

al-Ḥusayn b. Muskān

al-Ḥusayn b. Shādhawayh, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ṣaffār, al-Qummī

al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Zakariyya b. Ṣāliḥ b. Zufar, al-ʿAdawī, Abū Saʿīd, al-Baṣrī

al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamdān, al-Ḥuṣaynī, al-Junbulā’ī, Abū ʿAbdillāh

al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan, Abū Muḥammad, al-ʿAlāwī, al-Ḥusaynī

al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Zakariyya, al-Bazūfarī, al-ʿAdawī from ʿAdī al-Rabāb

Khaybarī b. ʿAlī, al-Ṭaḥḥān (the miller)

Khalaf b. Ḥammād b. Nāshir b. al-Layth, al-Asadī

Khalaf b. Muḥammad b. Abī al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī, al-Baṣrī

Dāwud b. Kathīr b. Abī Khālid al-Raqqī

Dārim b. Qubayṣa b. Nahshal, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Sāyiḥ

Dhibyān (b. Ḥukaym b. al-Awdī, Abū ʿAmr)

Dhurayḥ al-Muḥāribī.  Abū Saʿīd Sahl b. Ziyād

al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān b. ʿUmar

Ziyād b. al-Mundhir, al-Hamdānī, Abū al-Jārūd, al-Khārifī

Zayd al-Narsī, and Zayd al-Zarrād

Zakariyya, Abū Yaḥyā, Kawkab al-Dam

Sulaym b. Qays, al-Hilālī, al-ʿĀmirī

Saʿd b. Ṭarīf, al-Ḥanẓalī, al-Khaffāf (the boot maker)

Saʿīd b. Khuthaym, Abū MuʿAmmār al-Hilālī

Sulaymān b. Dāwud, al-Munqarī, al-Isbahānī

Sulaymān b. Hārūn, al-Nakhʿī, Abū Dāwud

Sulaymān b. Muʿallā b. Khunays

Sālim b. Abī Salama, al-Kindī, al-Sijistānī

Saʿd b. Muslim

Suhayl b. Ziyād, Abū Yaḥyā, al-Wāsiṭī

Salama b. al-Khaṭṭāb, al-Barāwastānī, Abū Muḥammad

Sahl b. Ziyād, Abū Saʿīd, al-Ādamī, al-Rāzī

Sahl b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh (b. Aḥmad) b. Sahl, al-Dībājī, Abū Muḥammad

Sulaymān b. Zakariyya al-Daylamī

Sharīf b. Sābiq, al-Taflīsī, Abū Muḥammad

Ṣāliḥ b. Sahl, al-Hamdānī

Ṣāliḥ b. ʿUqba b. Qays b. Samʿān b. Abī Dhabīḥa

Ṣabbāḥ b. Yaḥyā, al-Muzannī, Abū Muḥammad

Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī b. ʿAṭiyya, al-Aḍkham (the corpulent, fat), Abū Muḥammad

Ṣāliḥ b. Ḥammād, al-Rāzī, Abū al-Khayr

Ṭāhir b. Ḥātim b. Māhawayh, al-Qazwīnī

Ẓafar b. Ḥamdūn b. Shaddād, al-Bādirā’ī, Abū Manṣūr

ʿAmr b. Thābit b. Hurmuz, Abū al-Miqdām, al-Ḥaddād (the ironsmith)

ʿAlī b. Maymūn, Abū al-Ḥasan

ʿAmr b. Shimr, Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Juʿfī

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ashall (the paralytic)

ʿAmmār b. Marwān, al-Thawbānī

ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī ʿUmar, al-Ghifārī, Abū Muḥammad

ʿUmar b. Tawba, Abū Yaḥyā, al-Ṣanʿānī

ʿAbdullāh b. Bakr, al-Arjānī

ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥakam, al-Armanī

ʿAbdullāh b. Sālim, al-Ṣayrafī (the money changer)

ʿAbdullāh b. Baḥr

ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣamm, al-Misʿami, Abū Muḥammad

ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Kathīr

ʿUmāra b. Zayd, al-Khaywānī, al-Madanī

ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim b. al-Baṭal, al-Ḥārithi

ʿAbdullāh b. al-Qāsim, al-Haḍramī

ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥammād, al-Anṣāri

ʿAbdullāh b. Ayyūb, al-Qummī

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Nahīk, al-Samarī, Abū Muḥammad

ʿAlī b. al-ʿAbbās, al-Jarādhīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Rāzī

ʿUbayd b. Kathīr b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbdullāh b. Sharīk al-ʿĀmirī, al-Waḥīdī, al-Kilābī, Abū Saʿīd

ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmayr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Balawī, Abū Muḥammad, al-Miṣrī

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū Ḥammād

ʿUmar b. al-Mukhtār, al-Khuzāʿī

ʿĪsā b. al-Mustafād, al-Bajalī, Abū Mūsā al-Ḍarīr

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إعلم - أيدك الله وإيانا - إني لما وقفت على كتاب (السيد المعظم الأعظم) السيد جمال الدين أحمد بن طاووس في الرجال فرأيته مشتملا على نقل ما في كتب السلف، وقد كنت رزقت - بحمد الله تعالى - النافع من تلك الكتب، إلا " كتاب ابن الغضائري " فإني ما كنت سمعت له وجودا في زماننا هذا، وكان كتاب السيد هذا - بخطه الشريف - مشتملا عليه؛ فحداني التبرك به - مع ظن الانتفاع بكتاب ابن الغضائري - أن أجعله منفردا عنه. راجيا من الله الجواد الوصول إلى سبيل الرشاد.

Know – may God support you and us – that when I looked closely at the book of (the honored esteemed sayyid) al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ṭāwūs about rijāl, I saw that it included what has been narrated from the books of the Salaf.  And I was provided – by the praise of God تعالى – service of those books except for the book of Ibn al-Ghaḍā’irī, for I had not heard of its existence in this time of ours.  And this book of the Sayyid – by his noble handwriting – included it.  So, I was urged to find blessing by it – with the reckoning of getting benefit from the book of Ibn al- Ghaḍā’irī - that I make a separate (volume) from it, hoping for access to the path of reason from God the generous.

قال السيد المعظم: من كتاب أبي الحسين، أحمد بن الحسين بن عبيد الله الغضائري، المقصور على ذكر الضعفاء، ومن رد حديثه من أصحابنا على حروف المعجم.

The honored Sayyid said: From the book of Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ghaḍā’irī, restricted to the mention of the weak (narrators), and he whose ḥadīth has been rejected from our companions, in alphabetical order.

Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Book 1, Chapter 1