244 – al-Rashīdī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Baghdādī, al-Ẓafarī, the cloth-merchant; he was better known as “al-Rashīdī.”
He related that one of his forefathers had served as the market inspector (muḥtasib) of Baghdad in the days of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bārizī and from Yaḥyā ibn Thābit.
Ibn al-Najjār transmitted from him and said (1): “He was upright, devout, and cultured, and he composed both poetry and prose.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 632 AH, at nearly ninety years of age.
245 – Ibn Manda, Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān al-ʿAbdī
The eminent, long-lived shaykh, chief transmitter of Isfahan, Abū al-Wafāʾ Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān ibn Ibrāhīm, grandson of the shaykh Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of the “Guardian of the East,” Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Manda al-ʿAbdī al-Iṣfahānī.
He was born in 550 AH—though some said 552 AH.
His father introduced him to the study of ḥadith at an early age, so he heard from Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bāghbānī, Abū Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Fīj, Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Rustamī, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿdawayh, Abū al-Muṭahhar al-Ṣaydalānī, and several others.