the Book on the Most Beautiful Names, a Commentary on the Dīwān of Abū Tammām, an Exegesis of Islāḥ al-Manṭiq, and a number of other writings.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 370 AH, at eighty-two years of age.
223 – al-Khayyāsh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah
The shaykh, the truthful narrator, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah al-Miṣrī, known as al-Khayyāsh.
He heard hadith from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Manjanīqī, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him are Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭaffāl and others.
He was born in 280 AH and died in 371 AH.
We have listened to the fifth fascicle of his narrations.
224 – al-ʿAskarī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the reliable, the long-lived, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Aḥmad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAskarī, later of Baghdad, known as al-Daqqāq.
He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq, Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Kātib, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim al-Azharī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl, and ʿAbd