326 – al-Rahabī, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Rahabī, doorkeeper of the ḥarīm. He heard hadith from al-Niʿālī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Khall, and Ibn Khushaysh. He was considered acceptable. Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akhdar, ʿAbd al-Ghanī, al-Muwaffaq, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf, Wāthilah ibn Baqāʾ, and several others. He died in Ṣafar of the year 567 AH, at the age of eighty-five.

327 – al-Baṭalyawsī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan
The erudite scholar, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Anṣārī, the Andalusian, al-Baṭalyawsī—better known as Ibn al-Farrāʾ. In the frontier city he studied under Abū Bakr al-Ṭurṭūshī (1) and others, then extended his travels to Khurāsān, where he learned from Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Qushayrī, Sahl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sabʿī, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Farāwī, and a number of others, as well as the man of letters Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maydānī. He taught in Baghdad and in Syria, collected and authored works, and was distinguished by piety and reverent fear of God.