He passed away in Samarkand, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 381 AH.
312 – Ibn Kinānah, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Lakhmī
A meticulous hadith scholar, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Kinānah al-Lakhmī, from Córdoba, also known as Ibn al-ʿAnnān.
He heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn Khālid the ḥāfiẓ, Ibn Ayman, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, and—during his pilgrimage—from Abū Saʿīd al-Aʿrābī and Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Zubayrī.
Ibn al-Faraḍī mentioned him, saying, “People transmitted a great deal from him.”
Muḥammad ibn al-Salīm, the judge, narrated from him during his lifetime. He was reliable, virtuous, handsome, precise, and excelled at recording narrations; indeed, he was among the most trustworthy of those from whom we wrote.
He told me, “I was born in 299 AH,” and he passed away in 383 AH (1).
313 – al-Shāfiʿī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim
The erudite scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Iṣfahānī, widely known as al-Shāfiʿī.
Abū Nuʿaym said: “He was a theologian on the Ashʿarī creed.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 381 AH.
He produced numerous works on fiqh, uṣūl, and legal rulings.
He heard extensively in Iraq from Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mālikī, Abū ʿAlī al-Luʾluʾī, and many others.
He was also known by the epithet “al-Natīf.”