291 – al-Wādiʿī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥabīb al-Kūfī *
A ḥadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, leading imam, and judge: Abū Ḥuṣayn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥabīb al-Wādiʿī, the Kufan, famous as the compiler of a Musnad.
He learned ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, Jandal ibn Wāliq, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, ʿAwn ibn Salām, and others of their generation.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Bakr ibn al-Najjād, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṭalḥī, al-Ṭabarānī, and many others.
Al-Dāraquṭnī declared him reliable.
He died in Kufa during Ramadan, 296 AH.
292 – al-Māzinī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān
The shaykh, truthful narrator, and ḥadith scholar: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Māzinī al-Baṣrī.
He narrated from ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Musaddad ibn Musarhad, and their contemporaries.
Those who reported from him include Daʿlaj al-Sijzī, Ibn Qāniʿ, al-Ṭabarānī, Fārūq al-Khaṭṭābī, and others.