In that same year there also passed away: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīlī (1); Hawtharah ibn Ashras (2); ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn al-Kharrāz; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Najdah; ʿAmr al-Nāqid; al-Wāthiq; Yūsuf ibn ʿAdī; ʿĪsā ibn Sālim al-Shāshī; Kathīr ibn Yaḥyā—the associate of al-Baṣrī; Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār in Baghdad; and Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī.
2 - Ibn Shabbūyah, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad * (d)
The imam, exemplar, and muḥaddith, Shaykh al-Islām Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Thābit ibn ʿUthmān al-Khuzāʿī al-Marwazī—the ḥāfiẓ known as Ibn Shabbūyah.
He studied under ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, Abū Usāmah, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah, and many others.
Among his peers who narrated from him were Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others.
He was declared trustworthy by al-Nasāʾī and others.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Shabbūyah said: “I heard my father say: Whoever desires the knowledge of …”