He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of 387 AH.
334 – Ibn al-Muhandis, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bannāʾ
The hadith scholar of Egypt: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bannāʾ, known as Ibn al-Muhandis.
He received narrations from Dāwūd ibn Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naffāḥ, Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī—whom he met in Mecca—as well as from Muḥammad ibn Zabān, ʿAlī ibn Qudayd, and Abū ʿUbayd ibn Ḥarbawayh.
He was exceedingly prolific, and anyone who claimed that he heard from al-Nasāʾī was in error.
Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAbd al-Ghanī the ḥāfiẓ, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAffāṣ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Miskīn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muẓaffar al-Kahḥāl, and many others. Leading scholars carefully selected material from his narrations.
He was reliable, virtuous, and devout.
He lived for ninety years and passed away in 385 AH.
335 – Ibn Zūlāq, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī
The shaykh, the erudite scholar, the ḥadith expert, the historian: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan (1) ibn