331 – Ibn ʿAlyk ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Nishapuri *
A ḥadith master, decisive authority, and leading imam: Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlyk al-Nishapuri.
He transmitted ḥadith from Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿīd al-Rāzi, Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, al-Dāraqutni, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were Abūʾl-Qāsim al-Qushayri, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, the Imam of the Two Sanctuaries Abūʾl-Maʿālī, and Abū Saʿd ibn al-Qushayri.
He gathered material and authored several works.
He died in 431 AH, being in his seventies.
In Kūfa he studied under Abūʾl-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Taymuli and Abūʾl-Mufaḍḍal al-Shaybani; in Baghdad he also learned from ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkari; and in Marw he received knowledge from a number of scholars.
332 – Ibn Dust ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Nishapuri **
The judge, erudite scholar, and grammarian: Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Dust al-Nishapuri, author of several works.