As for Abu Nasr al-Kalabadhi, the ḥāfiẓ, he writes in Men of al-Bukhārī:
“Abu Ḥātim Sahl ibn al-Sarī al-Bukhārī, the ḥāfiẓ and cobbler, used to say:
‘The Ḥasan from whom al-Bukhārī narrates in his commentary on Sūrat al-Zumar is, in my view, Ḥasan ibn Shujāʿ the ḥāfiẓ.’”
Abu Nasr then adds: “Al-Shabībī wrote to us that Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Balkhī narrated to them, saying, ‘He died in the middle of Shawwāl in the year 244 AH, at the age of forty-nine.’”
I (the author) say: The transmitter—Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar—is the very man from whom the teacher of al-Ḥākim reported; therefore, his account is the sounder one. That Ṣūfī was mistaken, for he added twenty-two years to the date of death. Both reports, however, agree on his age, that he died in mid-month, and that the day was Monday.
Al-Kalabadhi also says: “He had brothers: Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ—the eldest; Abū Rajāʾ Aḥmad ibn Shujāʿ—the middle; and Abū Shaykh.”
67 – Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥarb al-Sulamī (T, Q)
A leading scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy narrator. Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī, from Marw, a close companion of Ibn al-Mubārak. He resided in Mecca, collected ḥadīth, and compiled works.
He transmitted a large body of material from Ibn al-Mubārak and also narrated from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and many others.