ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr ibn Muslim ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Thaqafī, originally from Isfahān, known as al-Khashshāb (the wood-seller) and as the muʾadhdhin.
He transmitted ḥadith from: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dārakī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Dakkah, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan, al-Faḍl ibn al-Khaṣīb, and a group of others.
Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī, Abū Nuʿaym, Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Bāṭirqānī, Abū Sahl Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī, and others.
He died in 391 AH, having reached nearly ninety years of age.
403 Ibn Ruzayq — Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumayd al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and reliable authority, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumayd ibn Ruzayq—whose surname begins with a rāʾ—was a Baghdadi shaykh who later settled in Egypt.
He heard ḥadith from: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Bakkār al-Saksakī, the judge al-Maḥāmilī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Raqqī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Malās, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqriʾ al-Makkī. The ḥāfiẓ Khalaf selected traditions from him.
Those who narrated from him include his grandson Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī, Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, and Yūsuf ibn Rabāḥ.
al-Ṣūrī judged him trustworthy.
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 391 AH.