—al-Bāshānī, the Herati.
He narrated ḥadīth from Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn—he was the last of that shaykh’s pupils—and from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nāfiʿ.
Among those who transmitted from him were Shaykh al-Islām al-Anṣārī and several others.
He was declared reliable.
It is said that he lived to the age of one hundred and six.
He died in 414 AH.
209 – al-Nuʿaymī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl
The ḥāfiẓ, the leading imām: Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Nuʿaymī, from Jurjān.
He related ḥadīth from Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Ghiṭrīf, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, al-Ḥākim Abū Aḥmad, and Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
He wrote a work entitled Akhbār al-Jabal (1) and another that he named al-Mujtabā.
Abū Naṣr al-Amīr mentions him, stating that he died in 415 AH (2).