None of Ibn al-Nahhās’s elevated isnād reports (ʿawālī) have reached me.
265 – al-Ḥurafī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh and musnid, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Waḍḍāḥ al-Ḥarbī, the Baghdadi broker, better known as al-Ḥurafī.
He narrated from Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Samāʿah, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qattāt, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, and a group of others.
He was unrivalled in his time.
Those who reported from him include Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Azharī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, and others.
Al-ʿAtīqī said, “He showed some leniency.”
He died in 376 AH.
266 – Ibn al-Bawwāb, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī **
The imam, Qurʾān reciter, and ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Bawwāb.
He heard ḥadith from Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Ḥāsib, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣawwāf, and their contemporaries.