374 – al-Dimyāṭī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār *
The shaykh, the ḥadith scholar, the reliable transmitter: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār al-Dimyāṭī.
He heard from Muḥammad ibn Zabbān—receiving from him the Book of al-Layth—and from Abū Bakr ibn al-Mundhir the Book of al-Ishrāf. He also studied under Abū ʿUbayd ibn Harbawayh and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī.
Narrators from him include Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭalamankī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān, and a number of Egyptians.
He died in 384 AH.
375 – al-ʿAbduwiyy, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbduwayh al-Hudhalī **
The venerable shaykh: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbduwayh ibn Sados al-Hudhalī, known as al-ʿAbduwiyy of Nīshāpūr, the father of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ḥāzim ʿUmar.
He heard from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, Ḥātim ibn Maḥbūb, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him are his son, al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjurūdhī, and many more.
He passed away in Ramadan 385 AH.
In that same year there also died: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Muhandis, a ḥadith scholar.