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Shāfiʿ ibn Muḥammad, grandson of the ḥadith master Abū ʿAwāna Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Isfarāyīnī
A ḥadith master, eminent imām, and beneficial teacher, known as Abū al-Naḍr al-Isfarāyīnī.
He received transmission from his grandfather, from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zifti, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-ʿAssāl, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī, the judge al-Maḥāmilī, and others of their circle.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Ḥākim, al-Sulamī, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Dharr al-Harawī, Abū Masʿūd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, and many others.
Al-Ḥākim said, “I cited traditions from him in the Ṣaḥīḥ.”
The author adds: He died in Jurjān in 378 AH. -
The bookseller Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās
A leading imām and ḥadith scholar, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī, the mustamlī (scribe who writes from dictation) and warrāq (bookseller).
He heard ḥadith from his father, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib, ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghailān, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, and al-Baghawī.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraqutnī, al-Barqānī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Qāḍī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and a number of others.