205 – Bakbara ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Harawī *
The eminent shaykh, devoted worshipper, and righteous man, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Harawī—the shoemaker and Qurʾān reciter.
He heard hadith from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Faḍl ibn Yaḥyā, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Fārisī, and the Shaykh al-Islām. He also transmitted the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā (Sunan al-Tirmidhī) from Abū al-Ẓafar ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAṭāʾ.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Abū al-Ḍawʾ Shihāb al-Shadhabānī ⦗1⦘, ʿAbd al-Muʿizz the Sufi, Ḥammād al-Ḥarrānī, and Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Jāmiʿ al-Fāmī.
He lived to an advanced age, outlived his contemporaries, and remained alive until shortly before 550 AH. He was born in 461 AH.
206 – Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā ibn Shuʿayb al-Sijzī **
The shaykh, imām, ascetic, righteous Sufi, Shaykh al-Islām, and leading transmitter across the regions, Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal—the son of the venerable, long-lived muhaddith Abū ʿAbd Allāh ʿĪsā ibn Shuʿayb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Sijzī, later al-Harawī, al-Mālinī.