Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, and others. He died in 262 AH.
196 – Ḥājib ibn Sulaymān ibn Bassām, Abū Saʿīd al-Manbijī * (S)
A ḥāfiẓ and widely travelled scholar, Abū Saʿīd al-Manbijī.
He related ḥadith from Wakīʿ, Abū Usāmah, Ibn Abī Fudayk, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Nasāʾī—who also declared him reliable (1)—Abū ʿArūbah, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the nephew of the Imām, and several others.
He passed away in 265 AH.
197 – The Persian, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd **
The shaykh and scholar Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Fārisī, later of Baghdad, a cloth-merchant; a venerable, trustworthy teacher who lived to a great age, and a relative of Saʿdān ibn Naṣr.
He heard ḥadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Muʿammar ibn Sulaymān, and others.
Those who narrated from him were Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Adamī, the judge al-Maḥāmilī, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, and others.