- Abū ʿUlāthah — Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Abī Ṭaybah*
A historian and man of letters, counted among the senior scholars of Egypt. He was sharp-minded and eloquent, yet many people found him objectionable. Some individuals brought accusations against him that the ruler accepted, so he was beaten repeatedly until he died. It later became clear that he had been wronged, for the agitation had been stirred up by the riff-raff who frequented the mosque.
He died in Ramaḍān, 291 AH.
He transmitted hadith from his father and from a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Ṭabarānī, the preacher ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār, Ḥumayd ibn Yūnus, and several others.
His own teachers included Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, Makkī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ruʿaynī, and Ḥarmalah. He died as a result of the beating—may Allah have mercy on him.
- al-Bazzār — Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Baṣrī**
The shaykh, the imām, the eminent ḥāfiẓ: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Baṣrī, known as al-Bazzār, author of the large Musnad in which he analysed its chains of transmission (1).