Abū Jaʿfar al-Aṣbahānī, also known as al-Dārakī.(1) He was the last surviving disciple of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī. He likewise heard from Sulaymān al-Shādhakūnī, and I am unaware of any flaw in him. Al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Shaykh ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and a number of others narrated from him. He died in 307 AH.

Two years before him there had passed away:

70 – Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr ibn Abān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madīnī *
He too related from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr and al-Shādhakūnī. Those who transmitted from him include Abū Shaykh, al-Ṭabarānī, and Ibn al-Muqriʾ as well. Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ declared him reliable.

71 – al-Wakīʿī, Abū ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar **
The imām, long-lived and trustworthy: Abū ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Jamīlah al-Dhuhlī, known as al-Wakīʿī, originally from Kūfa and later a resident of Egypt.