230 – Al-Karamānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The righteous, long-lived shaykh, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Karamānī, later resident in Nishapur.
Born: in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 480 AH.
He heard hadith from: Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf; Mūsā ibn ʿImrān al-Anṣārī; and Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dashtī, and he stood unrivalled in his time.
Narrators from him include: al-Samʿānī; his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir ibn Salmān; and others.
He died in 559 AH.
231 – Ibn al-Qaṭṭān, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
The accomplished scholar and eloquent man of letters, the poet of Baghdad, Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, al-Mattūthī, known as Ibn al-Qaṭṭān.
He heard hadith from: his father; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn; Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bāqillānī; and Ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī.
His satire was biting, while his praise poetry was superb. (2)