9 – al-Khallālī, Abū al-Qāsim Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm *
The foremost hadith authority of Jurjān in his day.
Born: 390 AH.
He studied under Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Khuzāʿī, Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī, Ghālib ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī, Ḥamzah al-Sahmī, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were Saʿd ibn ʿAlī al-Ghaḍāʾirī and a number of his peers.
He died in Jurjān in one of the years slightly after 480 AH. ﵀
10 – Ibn Samkūyah, Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdallāh **
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the beneficent scholar, the prolific author, the trustworthy transmitter—Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Samkūyah al-Iṣfahānī, who later settled in Herat. He was counted among the “knights” of hadith and among those who transmitted it in great abundance.
He heard hadith in Baghdad from Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl and his contemporaries;
in Nīshābūr from Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr;
in Isfahan from Ibrāhīm, grandson of Baḥruwayh, and several others;
in Samarqand from its musnid ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn; and
in Shiraz from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ.