245 – Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān ibn Baltakīn ibn Mubāriz ibn Bujkam
Imām, distinguished scholar, exacting traditionist and grammarian; Abū Bakr al-Turkī al-Baghdādī.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Gharīq, Ibn al-Naqqūr and others of their circle, and he kept close company with al-Ḥumaydī.
He copied a large number of works in his own hand, read the book al-Ikmāl with the amir Abū Naṣr, studied law under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, and learned theology from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qayrawānī. He earned his living as a professional copyist; his handwriting was elegant and fully vowelled. He was endowed with devotion, worship, regular litanies, asceticism and sincerity, and he was remembered for answered prayers.
Those who narrated from him include Qāḍī Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī, ʿAbd al-Jalīl Kūtāh (1), Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī and others.
Ibn Nāṣir (2) declared him reliable.
He died on the 18th of Ṣafar 513 AH, at the age of sixty-seven. He was quick to understand and had an excellent memory.

246 – Ibn Ṣābir, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī
The imām, traditionist, and principal teacher of Damascus, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn