145 – The Antiochene, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Walīd *
An eminent, firmly reliable, widely-travelled Imām: Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Walīd ibn Burd al-Anṭāki.
He transmitted ḥadith from Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ, al-Haytham ibn Jamīl, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Ṣanʿānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn al-Munādī, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.
Al-Dāraqutnī declared him trustworthy.
He performed the pilgrimage, returned home, and died in 278 AH at Antioch, past ninety years of age.
146 – Abū Zurʿa al-Dimashqī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr ** (d (1))
The shaykh, the Imām, the truthful authority, and the ḥadith scholar of Syria: Abū Zurʿa ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr al-Naṣrī—spelled with a nūn—al-Dimashqī; his residence stood by the Bāb al-Jābiya gate.