360 – al-Jibrīlī, Abū Aḥmad Asʿad ibn Baldarak ibn Abī al-Liqāʾ
The shaykh and centenarian, Abū Aḥmad Asʿad (1) ibn Baldarak ibn Abī al-Liqāʾ al-Jibrīlī, known as “the Doorkeeper.”
Born: in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 470 AH.
He sought out hadith—already in advanced years—and heard from Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ibn al-Jarrāḥ and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akhḍar, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad ibn al-Mannī, and others.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 574 AH.
361 – Ibn al-ʿAṣṣār, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Sulamī
The erudite scholar and man of letters, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī, later al-ʿAbbāsī, from Raqqa and then Baghdad, a distinguished philologist and prolific author (2).
Born: 508 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh and from Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādish.