250 – Al-Sahlī • Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The shaykh: Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Sahlī, of Nishapur, a man of letters and leading master of grammar.
He transmitted hadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam, Abū al-Walīd the jurist, and Abū al-Faḍl al-Muzakkī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Ḥasan al-Wāḥidī—who refined his literary education under him—and Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qushayrī.
He lived on until roughly 420 AH. ⦗1⦘
251 – Al-Salīṭī • Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn
The shaykh: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Sulaymān al-Salīṭī, of Nishapur—a grammarian deemed reliable.
He related hadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam.
Among those who transmitted from him are Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī, and Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī.
ʿAbd al-Ghafir al-Fārisī declared him trustworthy and stated that he died in Jumada al-Ūlā of 421 AH.