301 – Al-Bayhaqi* Abu Sulayman Dawud ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿAqil
The hadith scholar, leading imam and trustworthy authority, the musnid of Nishapur: Abu Sulayman Dawud ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿAqil ibn Saʿid al-Khusrawjirdi al-Bayhaqi.
He said, “I was born in the year 200 AH.”
He heard narrations from: Yahya ibn Yahya, Saʿd ibn Yazid al-Farraʾ, Qutaybah, Ishaq, ʿAli ibn Hujr, Abu Musʿab al-Zuhri, Yaʿqub ibn Kasib, Muhammad ibn Rumḥ, and Abu al-Taqi al-Yazani.
He travelled in quest of knowledge, wrote copiously, and produced work of high calibre.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Abu ʿAli al-Naysaburi, Abu Bakr ibn ʿAli, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Muslim, Bishr ibn Ahmad al-Isfarayini, and many others.
Al-Bayhaqi included a great number of his reports in his own books.
He passed away in Khusrawjird—a large village—in 293 AH.
302 – Musa ibn Ishaq ibn Musa ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Musa, a descendant of the Companion ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid al-Ansari al-Khatmi: an imam, erudite scholar, exemplar, Qur’an reciter and judge, Abu