6 – ʿAlī ibn Baḥr ibn Barri, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī * (D, T)
The imam, ḥadith master, and meticulous scholar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī—later known as al-Baghdādī, the cotton-merchant.
He transmitted aḥādīth from: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, ʿAbd al-Muhaymin ibn ʿAbbās al-Sāʿidī, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Hishām ibn Yūsuf, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and many other scholars from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and the Ḥijāz.
Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Dāwūd; al-Tirmidhī, by way of an intermediary; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī; Abū Zurʿah; Abū Ḥātim; Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq; Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ; Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī; and many others besides them.
He resided in Bābāsīr.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy.
He died in 234 AH.
Bābāsīr is a small town in the vicinity of Ahwāz.
7 – Ibn al-Rammāḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Maymūn al-Balkhī *
Judge of Nīshāpūr, the eminent scholar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Rammāḥ al-Balkhī, later al-Naysābūrī.
His grandfather’s name was Maymūn.