150 – Aḥmad ibn Khālid, Abū Jaʿfar al-Khallāl * (ت، س)
The eminent jurist, Abū Jaʿfar al-Khallāl of Baghdad.
He reported ḥadith from: Isḥāq al-Azraq, Ibn ʿUlayyah, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb, Maʿn, al-Shāfiʿī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Aḥmad al-Abbār, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, ʿUmar al-Bujayrī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs, and a host of others.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: “He was devout, upright, reliable, approved, and truthful.”
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “Trustworthy, distinguished, and of an early death.”
Ibn Qāniʿ said: “He died in Sāmarrāʾ in the year 247 AH.”
151 – Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl, Abū ʿAlī al-Bazzār ** (س)
The Imām, firmly reliable, Abū ʿAlī al-Bazzār of Baghdad, later resident in Naysābūr.
He related ḥadith from: ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar, Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Qurād, and their contemporaries.
Narrators from him include: al-Nasāʾī, al-Ḥusayn al-Qabbānī, ʿAbdān, Ibn Khuzaymah, and others—the last of them being Abū ʿAlī al-Mudhakir, that squanderer.