104 – al-Luʾluʾī* Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ḥarb al-Balkhī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and outstanding scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥarb al-Balkhī, known as al-Luʾluʾī.
He transmitted ḥadith from Mālik, Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab, Yaḥyā ibn Yamān, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Aḥwaṣ, and others.
Aḥmad ibn Sayyār al-Marwazī said, “He was a marvel among the marvels for the power of his memory.”
No one conversed with him without finding him superior in every discipline.
It is said that he compared notes with Sulaymān al-Shādhakūnī and held his own against him.
Al-Khaṭīb mentioned him and hinted at his weakness.
I encounter his narrations in several works of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā.
He most likely died sometime after 230 AH.

105 – Manṣūr ibn al-Mahdī, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿAbbāsī**
He governed Syria on behalf of al-Amīn and Basra on behalf of his brother al-Rashīd. After 200 AH, when the people revolted against al-Maʾmūn, he was invited to assume the caliphate but declined.
He related ḥadith from al-Walīd ibn Muslim and Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.