I add: he passed away in 276 AH, in the month of Dhu al-Ḥijjah.
121 – Ibn Abī al-Khanājir, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Anṣārī *
He was an imam, ḥadith scholar, and the Musnid of Tripoli: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn Muslim ibn Abī al-Khanājir al-Anṣārī, a Levantine, the Tripolitan.
He narrated from: Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr, Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqisānī, Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī, Ibn Jawṣā, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān, and others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Reliable.” (1)
It was also said: he was intelligent and forbearing.
Ibn Duḥaym stated: he died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 274 AH.
Khaythamah heard him relate: “Al-Maʾmūn stopped at the study circle of Yazīd—and I was among the thousands present—then turned to his companions and said, ‘This is true dominion.’”
122 – al-Narsī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Idrīs **
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and trustworthy transmitter: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Idrīs al-Ḍabbī, their client, from Baghdad, known as al-Narsī.