51 – al-Samarri, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad*
The imam and judge: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Samarri, nicknamed al-Raffāʾ.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī, Ḥamzah b. al-Qāsim, and others.
Those who narrated from him include his grandson (his daughter’s son) Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasnūn al-Narsī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Bundār al-Rāzī, and a group besides them.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy (1) and said: “His grandson Ibn Ḥasnūn told me, ‘I never once saw him eat while he was supposed to be fasting.’”
He died in the year 402 AH.
52 – al-Malāḥimī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad**
The imam and ḥadith scholar: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Bukhārī, better known as al-Malāḥimī.
He lectured in Nīshābūr and Baghdad, transmitting the treatises “Rafʿ al-Yadayn” (Raising the Hands) and “al-Qirāʾa Khalf…”