248 – Ghulām Muḥsin • Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Iṣbahānī
The shaykh, deemed reliable: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yazdād al-Iṣbahānī, better known as “Ghulām Muḥsin.”
He heard hadith from Abū Muḥammad ibn Fāris and from Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Muʿallim, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—the son of the ḥadith master Ibn Mardawayh—and a number of the teachers of the scholar al-Silafī.
He died in Ṣafar of 418 AH.
249 – Ibn Ḥid • Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī
The just dignitary, the warrior in jihad: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥid ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Naysābūrī, al-Jawharī, the money-changer—one of the city’s leading notables; the palace of Ḥid is named after him.
He was born in 332 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam and from Abū ʿAmr ibn Nujayd.
Among those who narrated from him are Abū Ṣāliḥ the mu’adhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī, and many others, the last of them being his grandson Manṣūr ibn Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥid ⦗1⦘.
He passed away in Rajab of 419 AH.
He left behind a well-known fascicle of narrations from al-Aṣam, which we heard with an elevated chain of transmission.