al-Sarakhsī—the merchant and Musnid of Bukhara.
He narrated ḥadith from: Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Daghūlī, Muḥammad b. Ḥamduwayh al-Marwazī, the judge al-Mahamili, Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Maṭīrī, and Manṣūr b. Muḥammad al-Bazdawī, a companion of al-Bukhārī.
Those who reported from him include Ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū Saʿd al-Mālīnī, and Muḥammad b. Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī.
The ḥāfiẓ Jaʿfar al-Idrīsī praised him, deemed him reliable, and described him as a pious man. He said, “He came to Nasaf in 327 AH to hear the Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū Ṭalḥah Manṣūr.”
He died in Rajab of 380 AH.
301 – al-ʿAskarī, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd *
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, man of letters, and erudite authority: Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-ʿAskarī, author of many works.
He heard ḥadith from: ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Tustarī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Baghawī, Abū Bakr b. Abī Dāwūd, and Muḥammad b. Jarīr.