Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Māshādha al-Isfahānī, nicknamed al-Sukkari, a Qur’an reciter, and the last person alive who had heard from Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm the ḥāfiẓ. He also received transmission from the chief, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafī, from Makkī ibn Manṣūr al-Karajī, and from others.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Ḥanbalī, ʿAbd al-Qādir the ḥāfiẓ, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Rustamī, Isḥāq ibn Muṭahhar al-Yazdī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān ibn Mandah, and Jāmiʿ ibn Aḥmad al-Khabbāz al-Isfahānī; and, by written authorization, Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah. He ranked among the leading Qur’an reciters, though I do not know under whom he himself studied the reading. He died in 572 AH, a little past ninety years of age.

346 – al-Maʿdānī, Abū al-Qāsim Rajāʾ ibn Ḥāmid ibn Rajāʾ: the shaykh, the reliable traditionist, the long-lived authority, Abū al-Qāsim Rajāʾ ibn Ḥāmid ibn Rajāʾ ibn ʿUmar al-Isfahānī, al-Maʿdānī. He heard from Rizq Allah al-Tamīmī, from Sulaymān the ḥāfiẓ, from Makkī ibn ʿAllān, and from their peers.
Those who narrated from him include ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, Abū Nizār Rabiʿah al-Yamanī, Sulaymān ibn Dāwud ibn Māshādha, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Warkanī, his grandson Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī al-Faḍāʾil, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿālī al-Wathābī, and others. He also issued an ijāzah to Karīmah and to various other students.