337 – al-Kassar, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad
The eminent judge and scholar, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bawwān al-Dīnawarī.
He heard the abridged Sunan of al-Nasāʾī from the ḥadith master Abū Bakr ibn al-Sunnī; his audition took place in 363 AH, and he began transmitting it in Jumādā I of 433 AH.
Those who narrated from him include: Badr ibn Khalaf al-Farkī (1), ʿAbdūs ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hamadhānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd al-Dūnī, and Abū Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, the muʾadhdhin.
Al-Kassar was reliable, possessed sound auditions, and was a man of learning and dignity.
He died around that time, shortly after teaching the book, and the last person to receive a licence from him was the musnid of Isfahan, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād.
338 – Ibn Rizmah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Bazzāz
The trustworthy shaykh, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn Rizmah al-Bazzāz, one of the hadith transmitters of Baghdad.
He narrated from: Abū Bakr ibn Khallād al-ʿAṭṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Salm, Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī, and a group of others.