And it is truly astonishing that Shuʿbah narrated from him; I can only assume that he was unaware of the man’s real standing—Allah knows best.

98 – Ibn al-Saqr, Aḥmad b. al-Saqr b. Thawbān al-Tarsūsī *
Imām, reliable authority, and ḥadīth scholar. He is Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad b. al-Saqr b. Thawbān al-Tarsūsī, later al-Baṣrī, known as the mustamli (the prompter who repeated the teacher’s words for the audience).
He transmitted from Abū Kāmil al-Jahdarī, Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Ḥarashī, and Muḥammad b. Bashʿar, and he served as Ibn Bashʿar’s mustamli (1).
Those who received ḥadīths from him include Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī, ʿAlī b. Luʾluʾ, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb rated him trustworthy.
He died in 301 AH.

99 – Ibn al-Saqr, ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Saqr b. Naṣr al-Baghdādī **
He is the imām and reliable transmitter Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Saqr b. Naṣr al-Baghdādī, known as al-Sukkārī.
He heard ḥadīths from Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Narsī, and Ibrāhīm b. al-Munḏir.
Narrators from him include al-Khuldī, Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Ḥafṣ b. al-Zayyāt, and a number of others.