122 – The Judge of Harran, ʿAbd Allah ibn Naṣr ibn Abī Bakr al-Harrānī *
The erudite scholar, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Naṣr ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad al-Harrānī, a Hanbali.
He was born in 549 AH.
He travelled abroad, studied jurisprudence in Baghdad, and distinguished himself. He received hadith from Shuhda al-Kātiba, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, ʿĪsā al-Dūshābī, and Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya, and he recited the Qur’an in the various transmissions at Wāsiṭ before Abū Ṭālib al-Kattānī and Ibn al-Bāqillānī.
Returning to his hometown, he taught Qur’anic recitation, served as judge, narrated hadith, and composed several works (1).
Those who transmitted from him include his grandson Abū al-Ghanāʾim and al-Shihāb al-Abarqūhī.
He died in 624 AH.

123 – Al-Qazwīnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl **
The shaykh, ascetic, and itinerant devotee, Abū al-Manāqib Muḥammad, son of the eminent scholar Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭālaqānī, al-Qazwīnī.
He stayed in Baghdad with his father for a period, and remained there after his father’s death. Embracing austere devotion, he wore wool and journeyed through the Jazīra, Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt. Kings and dignitaries attached themselves to him, and he used to say: