ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥsin said, “I was present with Ibn Luʾluʾ together with Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Bayḍāwī in order to read to him. He had already been informed of the exact number of attendees, and we handed him the agreed dirhams. When he noticed one person more than the number specified, he put him out. The man sat in the vestibule, and al-Bayḍāwī began to raise his voice so that he could hear. Ibn Luʾluʾ protested, ‘Abū al-Ḥusayn, are you going to pull that on me? I am a Baghdadi—my shop is at Bāb Ṭāq, a bookseller, a hadith man, a Shiʿi, blue-eyed and beardless!*’ He then ordered his maidservant to pound ushnān (alkali soap) in a mortar so that the sound would not reach the man.

*Literally “azraq kawsaj”: blue-eyed and without a beard.

236 – Ibn Ṣābir, Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bukhārī*

The shaykh and musnid, Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir ibn Kātab al-Bukhārī, the muʾadhdhin.

He related from Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazara, Ḥāmid ibn Sahl, Muḥammad ibn Ḥurayth, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Waḍḍāḥ, and a company of others; he was the last person to narrate from Ṣāliḥ.

Narrators from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ghunjar, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shīrāzī, and Abū Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Bukhārī al-Sunnī.

Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī recorded his death in 377 AH.

237 – Ibn Yāsīn, Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāhilī**

The judge, imam, and ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Qāsim Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn