278 – al-Buzānī, al-Muṭahhar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, the eminent dignitary, Abū al-Faḍl al-Muṭahhar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Yarbūʿī, al-Buzānī, al-Iṣfahānī, the scribe.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Marzubān al-Abharī, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mandah, the ḥadith master, Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, and Ibrāhīm ibn Khurrashīdh Qūlah.
He lived to a great age, and many people narrated from him.
He remained alive until the year 475 AH (1).
Among those who transmitted from him were Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Rustamī, and a number of others.
He had a son of high rank—the vizier ʿAbd al-Wāḥid—who was appointed ʿAmīd over Iraq, but the son died before his father.
279 – Ibn al-Baqqāl, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī **
The shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Baqqāl al-Azajī.
He transmitted from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān, and Abū ʿAlī al-Baradānī transmitted from him.