al-Balluṭī — Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad
The Imām and ḥadīth master: Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, known as al-Balluṭī.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Abū Dharr ibn al-Bāghandī, and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Niʿālī.
He taught and narrated in Ahwāz and elsewhere.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym, and others.

al-Dārakī — ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad
The great Imām, senior authority of the Shāfiʿīs in Iraq: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dārakī al-Shāfiʿī, maternal grandson of the muḥaddith al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dārakī al-Iṣfahānī.
He was born sometime after 300 AH.
He related ḥadīth from his grandfather and later settled in Baghdad.
He studied jurisprudence under Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Marwazī, and he assumed the leading chair for the school,