156 – Al-Fākhūrī, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus ibn Abān (S, Q)
The ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and long-lived transmitter, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus ibn Abān al-Ramlī—known as al-Fākhūrī.
He narrated from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, Ibn Shābūr, and a number of others.
Among those who reported from him are al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAttāb al-Zifti (1), Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Qudūrī, Ibn Wahb al-Dīnawarī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Fayyaḍ, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī and other critics declared him trustworthy (2).
He passed away in 264 AH, having reached his nineties.
157 – Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar ibn Manīʿ ibn Salīṭ al-Naysābūrī (3) (S, Q)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and firmly reliable scholar, Abū al-Azhar al-ʿAbdī,