Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Khayyām al-Bukhārī, and others besides.

Al-Khayyām records that he (i.e., Ḥāmid ibn Sahl) passed away in the year 297 AH, at which time he was in his eighties.

24 – Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Marwar-Rūdhī *

He received ḥadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Yaḥyā ibn Durust, Abū Muṣʿab, and their contemporaries. He amassed a large collection and preserved it well.

Among those who narrated from him are Ibn Abī al-ʿAqib, Ibn al-Bakhtarī, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, Abū Bakr ibn Khallād, and others.

Al-Khaṭīb judged him trustworthy (1).

Al-Ḥākim stated: “He died in Marw al-Rūdh after returning from the pilgrimage in the year 296 AH.”

25 – al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ayyūb, Abū Aḥmad al-Jarjarāʾī **

The grand vizier, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ayyūb ibn Sulaymān al-Jarjarāʾī—also said to be al-Mādarāʾī—became the special confidant of the vizier al-Qāsim ibn ʿUbayd Allah and gained ascendancy over him through his graceful conduct and refined manners.