407 – Ibn al-ʿAllāf, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The imām, scholar, and preacher Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-ʿAllāf.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Salm al-Khutṭalī, Makhlad ibn Jaʿfar al-Bāqarḥī, and a group of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were his son Abū al-Ḥasan al-Hājib, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Bāqarḥī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “I wrote down traditions from him; he was truthful and visibly dignified. He conducted a teaching circle in the Manṣūr Mosque and held a sitting for admonition.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 442 AH (1).
I say: he was in his nineties.
408 – al-Dhakwānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, imām, and long-lived scholar—the last of the musnid transmitters—Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hamdānī, al-Dhakwānī, an Isfahāni, deemed reliable. He was one of the notables of his city, from a household of standing and narration.
He related ḥadith from Abū al-Shaykh the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbāb, Isḥāq ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʾigh, and ʿAbd