379 – Ibn al-Mīrāthī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Balawī*
The peerless and painstaking ḥadīth master, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Balawī, of Córdoba, known as Ibn al-Mīrāthī, was counted among the foremost authorities in ḥadīth.
He narrated from Abū al-Fath ibn Sībukht (1), Abū Muslim al-Kātib, Yūsuf ibn al-Dakhīl, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Saqaṭī, Saʿīd ibn Naṣr al-Qurṭubī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Bazzāz, and others of their rank.
When ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd observed his expertise and tireless effort, he nicknamed him “Ghundar.” (2)
Afterward he returned home and spread his narrations. Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khawlānī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Dilhāth, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Mahdawī, and Abū Muḥammad ibn Khazraj.
He died circa 428 AH, at a little over sixty years of age.
380 – al-Qudūrī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad**
The shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn