He was dark-skinned and versed in many fields, and his brother had passed away two years before him.

309 – Ibn al-Kuraydī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mahdī al-Hilālī*
The shaykh and scholar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mahdī ibn Mufarraj al-Hilālī, a Damascene, served as physician of the bīmāristān.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Kuraydī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥinnāʾī, and, in Baghdad, from Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī, among others.
He copied a large number of manuscripts in his own hand.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Shīrāzī, Mukram al-Qurashī, Karīmah al-Zubayriyyah, and others.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 562 AH, at nearly eighty years of age.

310 – al-Sawīqī, Abū ʿĀṣim Qays ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl**
The righteous shaykh Abū ʿĀṣim Qays ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Aṣbahānī, known as al-Sawīqī, was a Sufi and the muʾadhdhin of the congregational mosque in Isfahan. He was the travelling companion of Abū Naṣr al-Yūnārātī on the journey to Baghdad.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Tikakī, Abū Ghālib al-Bāqillānī, and several others.