245 – Al-Rabaʿī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and reliable narrator, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rabaʿī, a Damascene known as al-Bundār.
He heard hadith from Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim, Aḥmad ibn ʿĀmir ibn al-Muʿammar, Jumāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Zamlakānī, Ḥājib ibn Arakīn, Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ al-Ghassānī, Muḥammad ibn Tammām al-Baḥrānī, and many others besides.
Those who transmitted from him include Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī, al-Musaddad ibn ʿAlī al-Umlūkī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥāfiẓ, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī said, “A group of us received hadith from him, and he was trustworthy. He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 374 AH.”
I add: We heard al-Rabaʿī’s fascicle through the students of the two sons of Abū Luqmah, from Ibn ʿAbdān, from Ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maṣṣīṣī, from Ibn Saʿdān, who traced it back to him.
246 – Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Abū Bakr al-Baṣrī
The venerable, long-lived shaykh Abū Bakr al-Baṣrī, the nephew of Hilāl al-Rāzī.
He related hadith from Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muthannā, and Abū Khalīfah.
Among those who reported from him were Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī and Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Yazdī.