172 – Abu Ghalib al-ʿAdl Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad *
The shaykh, an upright and venerable authority, long-lived, and the leading transmitter of Hamadan: Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qariʾ al-Hamadhani, known as al-Khaffaf. Official audition certificates documenting his attendance are still preserved in the original collections of the hadith scholars.

He related hadith from Abu Saʿid ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Shubānah, Mansur ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Hanbali, and al-Husayn ibn ʿUmar al-Nahawandi.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abu Tahir al-Silafi, Shahrdar ibn Shirawayh, and Abu al-Karam ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Karim. I believe that the hadith master Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-ʿAttar also heard from him, for he lived long enough to meet him. Abu Ghalib was still narrating in 506 AH, when he was already in his nineties.

Shirawayh gives no date for his death. He was counted among reliable court witnesses.

173 – al-Bahiri Abu Saʿid Ismaʿil ibn ʿAmr ibn Muhammad **
The shaykh, imam, trustworthy authority, and eminent scholar: Abu Saʿid Ismaʿil ibn ʿAmr ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bahiri al-Naysaburi, the hadith expert.

Born in 419 AH, he used to say, “I read Sahih Muslim to Abu al-Husayn ʿAbd al-Ghafir al-Farisi (1) more than twenty times.”