286 – al-Akhfash Hārūn ibn Mūsā ibn Sharīk al-Taghlibī *
The Qur’an-reader of Damascus, the eminent imam, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Hārūn ibn Mūsā ibn Sharīk al-Taghlibī al-Dimashqī.
He studied the Qur’anic readings under Ibn Dhakwān and Hishām, and he narrated ḥadith from Salām al-Madāʾinī and Abū Musʿhir al-Ghassānī.
Those who recited the Qur’an to him include Ibn Shanabūdh, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaṣāʾirī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Murr al-Akhram, Jaʿfar Abī Dāwūd, and several others. Among those who transmitted from him are Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣiḥ, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Dhakwān, and others.
He was born in the year 200 AH and passed away in Ṣafar 292 AH. He was an imam versed in numerous disciplines and authored works on the Qur’anic readings (qirāʾāt) and Arabic. Reciters who travelled to study under him included Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dājūnī (1), and others.
287 – Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aʿyan, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī **
A ḥadith scholar renowned for his truthfulness, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī.