Naṣr ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī al-Azdī al-Muhallabī al-Samarqandī.
The mantle of leadership in the Ḥanafī school ultimately settled upon him.
He transmitted hadith from Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā, Fāris ibn Muḥammad, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamm, and the scholars of Balkh.
Among those who narrated from him were the jurist ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad and others.
Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn Qāḍī al-Ḥiṣn records that he died in 353 AH.

139 – Al-Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan
The poet of the age, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Juʿfī al-Kūfī, the celebrated man of letters known as al-Mutanabbī.
He was born in 303 AH and spent time among the Bedouin, mastering their language and lore. He was one of the keenest intellects of his era.
He reached the pinnacle of poetic composition, surpassed the earlier masters, and his dīwān spread to every corner of the lands.
He lauded Sayf al-Dawla, the ruler of Syria, and the eunuch Kāfūr, governor of Egypt,