256 – Ibn Sahl, ʿAbū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Anṣārī*
The imam and eminent ḥadith scholar, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Anṣārī—originally of Baghdad, later of Marw.

He was born in 200 AH.

He transmitted ḥadith from: ʿAmr ibn Marzūq; Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq; Musaddad; ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd; and Qutaybah.

Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd; the two scholars from Bukhara, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf; Ibn ʿAdī; and al-Ismāʿīlī.

He was an authority in Qurʾānic exegesis. Ibn ʿAdī considered him somewhat weak, then added, “I hope there is nothing objectionable about him.”

It is said that he died in 293 AH.

257 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal ibn Hilāl al-Shaybānī (S) (1)
The imam, ḥadith master, critic, and leading scholar of Baghdad, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the son of the shaykh of his age, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhuhli al-Shaybānī, originally from Marw and later resident in Baghdad.