Thābit b. Aslam Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥalabī
The erudite Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥalabī was the jurist of the Shīʿah in Aleppo, its foremost grammarian, and one of the leading pupils of Shaykh Abū Ṣalāḥ. He occupied the teaching chair and wrote a treatise exposing the flaws of the Ismāʿīlīs, tracing the beginnings of their call and demonstrating that it rested on deception. The sect’s dāʿī seized him, conveyed him to Egypt, and al-Mustanṣir (1) crucified him—may Allah not be pleased with the one who killed him. Because of this, the great library of Aleppo, which held ten thousand bound volumes, was set ablaze. May Allah have mercy on this innovator who nevertheless defended the faith; to Allah belongs the ultimate decree.

al-Ḥammādī Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Makkī
A shaykh of both the Hanafis and the Shafiʿis, the erudite Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Makkī b. Isrāfīl b. Ḥammād al-Ḥammādī al-Nasafī was among the eminent scholars. He began as a Ḥanafī and later adopted the Shāfiʿī school. He heard hadith from Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik al-Isfarāʾīnī and Ismāʿīl b. Ḥājib al-Kushānī, and he lived to an advanced age. Among those who transmitted from him was Ḥusayn b. al-Khalīl, the teacher of Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī.