391 – Ibn Jamīl, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb al-Iṣfahānī
The shaykh, the reliable authority, Abū Aḥmad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb, grandson of the ḥadīth scholar Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Jamīl al-Iṣfahānī.
He heard from his grandfather the Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ and was its sole transmitter. He also received reports from Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Maḥmūwayh and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUthmān al-Fasawī.
Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh, Abū Bakr al-Dhakwānī, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim ibn Sībawayh, Abū Naṣr Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī, ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Khallāl, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Muʿallim, and others.
Ibn Mardawayh stated that he died in Shaʿbān of the year 386 AH.
In that same year passed away: Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Muzakkī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Nuʿaymī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Zulāq, the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Layth, Abū Aḥmad al-Sāmarī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarrānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khatan, Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī, and al-ʿAzīz bi-Allāh, the ruler of Egypt.
392 – Ibn Māhān, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿĪsā al-Fārisī
The imām, the ḥadīth scholar, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĪsā ibn Māhān al-Fārisī, later al-Baghdādī.
He studied under: Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Bakr al-ʿAbbādānī, and ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk,