141 – Aḥmad ibn Shaybān ibn al-Walīd ibn Ḥayyān al-Ramlī *
The eminent ḥadīth scholar, reliably truthful, Abū ʿAbd al-Muʾmin al-Ramlī.
He heard ḥadīths from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Ruwwād, ʿAbd al-Malik al-Juddī, and Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl.
Those who narrated from him include Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Marwazī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Khuzaymah, ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī, and others.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim judged him reliable, whereas Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He makes mistakes.” (1)
I (the author) say: Some of his higher-sourced traditions have reached us in the Khalʿiyyāt and the Thaqafiyyāt.
He died in Ṣafar of the year 268 AH.
142 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zanjawayh al-Baghdādī ** (4)
The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī, known as al-Ghazzāl (“the spinner”), the jurist,