Najīb al-Wāsiṭī and Ilyās ibn Muḍar.
He taught in Hamadhān and in Baghdad in 539 AH, when he had come from the pilgrimage, giving his lessons in the congregational mosque.
Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Najā the preacher, and Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī.
He passed away in Herat, in Shaʿbān 552 AH.
223 – Kūtāh ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid *
The shaykh, the Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the meticulous master, the hadith scholar of Isfahān: Abū Masʿūd ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, known as Kūtāh.
Born: 476 AH.
He heard hadith from Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, Abū Bakr ibn Mājah al-Abharī, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dhakwānī, Ibn Ashtah, many of the disciples of Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqāsh and Abū Nuʿaym, and later the students of Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm.
Ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā said: “He was unrivaled in his time for his learning, combined with excellent conduct and humility. He narrated to us, both reading from his notes and from memory, from the pulpit where he preached, in 519 AH (1)… and he mentioned a hadith.”