He passed away on the Day of ʿArafah, in 389 AH.
362 – al-Mustamlī Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad *
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, itinerant seeker, and truthful authority: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Balkhī, known as al-Mustamlī, the transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ on the authority of al-Firabrī.
His detailed biographical information has not reached me.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Dharr ʿAbd ibn Aḥmad; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid al-Hamdānī in al-Andalus; and the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Balkhī.
He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ in 314 AH.
Abū Dharr said: “He was among the reliable, meticulous scholars of Balkh; he journeyed widely, listened to a great deal, and compiled for himself a Muʿjam.”
He died in 376 AH.
363 – Ibn Ḥammūyah, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad **
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, trustworthy transmitter, and musnid: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammūyah ibn Yūsuf ibn Aʿyan, the preacher of Sarakhs.
In 316 AH he heard the Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Firabrī; he also auditioned the Musnad al-Kabīr and the Tafsīr of ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd from Ibrāhīm ibn Khuzaym al-Shāshī, and the Musnad of al-Dārimī from ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar al-Samarqandī, on his authority.