Khālid al-Qurashī al-Umawī al-ʿAttābī al-Baṣrī—one of the descendants of ʿAttāb ibn Asīd, the governor of Mecca.

He transmitted ḥadith from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, Azhar al-Sammān, Ashhal ibn Ḥātim, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, al-Anṣārī, Badal ibn al-Muḥabbar, and their contemporaries.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaṣāʾirī, Khaythama al-Aṭrābulusī, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk, Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ, Fārūq ibn ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Khaṭṭābī, and others.

Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “There is nothing wrong with him.”

Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim remarked, “He reported from Abū ʿĀṣim narrations for which he has no corroborators.”

Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus stated, “He taught in Egypt and died in Basra, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 284 AH.”

I (the author) add: He reached a very advanced age, passing away after he had entered his second century.

183 – Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīra ibn Sinān al-Ḍabbī al-Hamadhānī *
Known as al-Sukkari; he was a Hanafi jurist.

He was also nicknamed Ḥamdān and was regarded as the leading teacher of the hadith scholars in Hamadhān and of the scholars of reasoned opinion.

He transmitted from al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥakam al-ʿUranī, Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Rāzī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, Qabīṣa, and a number of others.