ibn ʿAbbād ibn ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Dīnawarī, better known as Ibn al-Ustād.
He was born in 381 AH.
He narrated from Abū Bakr ibn Lāl, from his own father Abū al-Qāsim, from Aḥmad ibn Turkān, from Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī al-Fārisī, from Ṭāhir ibn Māhila, from ʿAlī ibn al-Bayyiʿ, and from several others; in his day he was unrivaled.
Shīrawayh al-Daylamī said, “I heard ḥadīth from him in Hamadhān and in Dīnawar. He was truthful, and he personally informed me of his birth year.”
He also reported that Ibn al-Ustād died in Dīnawar in 478 AH.
323 – Ibn Shanduh, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Iṣfahānī *
The shaykh, the long-lived Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Shanduh, originally from Isfahan, resident in Wāsiṭ, and a Shiʿi.
He was born in 396 AH.
In 407 AH he heard (The History of Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythama) from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Khazafa al-Ṣaydalānī. He also heard from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Kurdān the grammarian, and from his uncle Abū Muḥammad al-Talʿukbarī the Rāfiḍī; he owned some of his uncle’s books (1) but would let no one listen to them.
Al-Salafī said, “I asked Khamīs al-Ḥawzī about him. He replied, ‘Ibn Shanduh was a dignified notable, trustworthy. One day I reached out for some of his books and he snatched them from my hand.’”