271 – Ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Llāh, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The venerable shaykh, devout, upright, and truthful, Abū l-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Llāh, al-Hāshimī, al-ʿAbbāsī, al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarīmī (1), was a preacher and one of the last remaining musnid authorities in Baghdad.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū l-Qāsim ibn Luʾluʾ, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Qazwīnī, Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī, and Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Nāṣir, al-Salafī, Dhākir ibn Kāmil, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mubārak ibn al-Maʿṭūsh, and others.
He also granted an ijāza (license to transmit) to al-Khushūʿī (2).
He was born in 436 AH and died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 517 AH.
272 – al-Faradī, Abū l-Maʿālī Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh Abū l-Maʿālī Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muslim al-Baghdādī (3), known as al-Faradī and the brother of Naṣr Allāh.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghaylān, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khallāl, and al-Jawharī.