20 – Ibn Kharuf, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ishbili
He was the leading grammarian, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Kharuf al-Ishbili, author of A Commentary on Sibawayh and other works. He trained under Ibn Tahir al-Khidabb and later assumed the teaching post himself. He died in 610 AH, though another report places his death in 609 AH. He was a contemporary and peer of al-Jazuli, and he lived to an advanced age.
21 – Taj al-Umana’, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Dimashqi
The imam and hadith scholar Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah al-Dimashqi.
He narrated from his two uncles—al-Sa’in (1) and the Ḥāfiẓ (2)—and from Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Bunn, Nasr ibn Muqatil, Abu al-‘Ashā’ir al-Kurdi, Abu al-Muzaffar al-Falaki, and Abu al-Makārim ibn Hilal. He compiled for himself a mashyakha (a catalogue of his teachers) and was a learned, eminent figure who held high offices. Those who transmitted from him include his son al-‘Izz (3) the genealogist, al-Dhiya’, Ibn Khalil, and al-Qawsi,