152 – al-Maṣīṣī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Maṣīṣī.
He narrated in Baghdad from Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh Durrān, Aḥmad ibn Khulayḍ al-Ḥalabī, and others.
Among those who reported from him were Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Razzāz, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Bukayr, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, and several more.
Abū Nuʿaym said: He died—he was somewhat lenient—in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 364 AH.
153 – Ibn al-Qūṭiyyah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Andalusī **
The eminent man of letters, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī, the grammarian, author of several works.
He received ḥadith from Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Saʿīd ibn Jābir, Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zubaydī, and others.