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Ibn Ṣāʿid – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʿidī
The qadi (chief judge) of Nishapur, its foremost authority and leading figure: Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad, son of the qadi Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid al-Ṣāʿidī.
He heard hadith from his father, from his uncle Yaḥyā, from ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī, and ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad.
He later taught in Baghdad; Ibn Nāṣir, Ibn al-Samʿānī (1), and others transmitted traditions on his authority.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of 527 AH, at a little over eighty years of age. -
Ṭāhir ibn Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd
The eminent shaykh and seasoned transmitter, Abū Muḥammad al-Isfarāyinī—later of Damascus—the goldsmith.
His father, the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Faraj, took him to hear from Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥināʾī, ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Hilālī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Azdi, and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr.