93 – Ibn Rustah, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allah al-Ḍabbī
A hadith master, traditionist, and trustworthy narrator: Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. Rustah b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUmar b. Zayd al-Ḍabbī, originally from Madinah and counted among the notable figures of Isfahan.
He related hadith from Shaybān b. Farrūkh, Hudbah b. Khālid al-Qaysī, Abū Maʿmar al-Hudhalī, Sulaymān al-Shadhakūnī—al-Shadhakūnī actually lodged in their home when he arrived—Muḥammad b. Ḥumayd, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Isḥāq b. Ḥamzah, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Shaykh, Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd Allah b. al-Marzubān, and others.
He died in 301 AH, according to the dating of Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Manda.
94 – Ibn Farah, Aḥmad b. Farah b. Jibrīl al-ʿAskarī
The erudite imam, Qur’an reciter, and exegete: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Farah b. Jibrīl al-ʿAskarī—later of Baghdad—who was blind.
He studied Qur’an recitation under al-Bazī and al-Dūrī.
He narrated hadith from ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah, and several others.
Among those who transmitted from him are Ibn Samʿān and Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Khuṭṭulī.
A large number learned Qur’an recitation from him, among them Zayd b. Abī Bilāl, ʿUmar b. Bayān, and Abū Bakr