236 – al-Tabbaʿī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd *

The Imām, reliable authority and ḥadith scholar of Hamadhān: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Abān al-Qurashī, their client, al-Hamadhānī, better known as al-Tabbaʿī; he belonged to the freedmen of the Banū Umayyah.

He narrated—both in his own town and in Baghdad—from al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥakam al-ʿUranī, Aṣram ibn Ḥawshab, al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Ashīb, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include Muṭayyin, the Imām Ibn Khuzaymah, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Ḥusayn al-Maḥāmilī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, and many others.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” (1)

I (al-Dhahabī) say: He died in 267 AH.

237 – al-Barallusī, Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd **

The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous scholar: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, son of Abī Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Asadī—Kūfan by origin, born in Ṣūr, and resident in Barallus (pronounced with a fatḥah on the bāʾ and rāʾ and a ḍammah on the lām). Ibn Nuqṭah listed him in his register.