Marw al-Rūdh, and in Bukhara and Nishapur as well, where he taught in 297 AH. Shakkar died in one of the two Rabīʿ months of 303 AH, though another report places his death in 302 AH. I think he also travelled for trade.
124 – al-Sarrāj, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abān *
The imām, trustworthy transmitter, and musnid: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abān ibn Maymūn al-Baghdādī, known as al-Sarrāj.
He heard hadith from Yaḥyā al-Ḥammānī, al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Zayyāt, Muḥammad ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī, and others.
He passed away in 306 AH; another opinion says 305 AH.
125 – al-Muhallabī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khālid **
The imām, reliable and beneficial ḥāfiẓ: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khālid al-Muhallabī al-Azdī al-Jurjānī, the leading scholar of Jurjān.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Zunbūr al-Makkī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī, and Ibrāhīm ibn