270 – Mūsā b. ʿImrān b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yazīd al-Anṣārī *
The shaykh, the pious exemplar, and the musnid of Khurasan; Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Anṣārī, the Nishapuri Sufi.
Born: 388 AH.
He received hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī—being the last person to transmit from him—from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Abū al-Qāsim al-Sarrāj, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Zāhir and Wajīh, the two sons of al-Shahhāmī; Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Dawsat al-Ḥākim; ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. al-Ṣaffār, the jurist; al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Shahhāmī; ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Furāwī; and others.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir said, “He was a distinguished shaykh, attractive in recitation and appearance, firmly grounded in the spiritual path. He met Shaykh Abū Saʿīd b. Abī al-Khayr al-Mīhanī and served him, then served Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī. He was one of the pillars among the shaykhs and lived eighty-nine years.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 486 AH.
271 – al-Muqawwimī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad **
The shaykh, a truthful narrator, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. al-Haytham al-Qazwīnī—known as al-Muqawwimī—the transmitter of Sunan Ibn Mājah from al-Qāsim b. Abī al-Mundhir al-Khaṭīb.
He heard hadith in 408 AH, at the age of ten, from Ibn Abī al-Mundhir and from al-Zubayr b