the master calligrapher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Shihāb al-ʿUkbarī (1) the Hanbalī; the “chief of the philosophers,” Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sīnā (2); and the shaykh of the Hanbalīs, Abū ʿAlī b. Abī Mūsā al-Hāshimī.

294 – The Najīramī, Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl*
Egypt’s leading philologist, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl b. Khurrāzādh al-Baṣrī, came from a household renowned for learning and mastery of Arabic. He was a consummate scholar, meticulous and authoritative, an avid transmitter of works of belles-lettres and keenly aware of their subtleties. He was dark-complexioned and sported a thick beard.

Najīram is a district in Basra; some say it is a village within its jurisdiction.

He died in 423 AH at the age of seventy-eight—may Allah have mercy on him.

295 – The Qurʾān commentator Manṣūr b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī**
The shaykh, the imām, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī, the Qurʾānic exegete. He studied under Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm and was almost the sole transmitter of his material.