He passed away in Shawwāl, d. 298 AH, and was counted among al-Ismāʿīlī’s senior teachers.

269 – Durrān, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh ibn Sufyān al-Baṣrī *
The imām, ḥadith scholar, centenarian, and trustworthy transmitter: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh ibn Sufyān ibn al-Mustahill, the ʿAnazī from Basra who later settled in Aleppo, known as Durrān.

He heard ḥadith from al-Qaʿnabī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī, Abū Salamah al-Minqarī, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include al-Najjād, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Rāfiqī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣṣīṣī, Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Saqqāʾ, and a number of other scholars.

He died d. 294 AH, having reached his tenth decade.

270 – Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan **
The shaykh, traditionist, centenarian, and tutor: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb.

He took up residence in Baghdad and transmitted ḥadith from his father, his grandfather, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Wāqid, ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Yaḥyā al-Bābluttī, and others.

He lived to an advanced age and became a solitary transmitter.