165 – Aṣ-Sukūkī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥusayn
The Imām, the precise ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥusayn an-Nasafī, known as Aṣ-Sukūkī.
He transmitted ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazara, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, and their contemporaries.
Jaʿfar al-Mustaghfirī cites him in The History of Nasaf, saying, “He was a ḥāfiẓ who authored thematic compilations and was thoroughly acquainted with the ḥadith lore of his town.”
He died in Jumada I, 344 AH.
The author remarks, “None of his ḥadith have reached me, and I hardly know him.”
166 – Ibn Ḥarārah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Asadī
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and inveterate traveller, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Asad al-Asadī al-Bardhaʿī.
He journeyed through Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. Among those he heard from were Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb al-Daynūrī, Ibn Jawṣā, and others.
He was later the teacher of Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṭayyibī, one of al-Khalīlī’s shaykhs.
Al-Khalīlī says, “His father was known as Ḥarārah,” adding: “From memory alone he narrated in Qazwīn and Rayy more than thirty thousand ḥadith, without a single sheet in his hand; and in his dictations…”