128 – Ibn Ḥabīb, Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ifriqī*
He was the senior Mālikī authority of Ifriqiya, an erudite scholar, and the judge of Tripoli in the Maghrib. His full name is Abū al-Aswad Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥabīb al-Ifriqī al-Qaṭṭān, the Mālikī jurist.

He studied under Muḥammad ibn Sahnūn, Shajara ibn ʿĪsā, and others.

Those who reported from him include Tamīm ibn Abī al-ʿArab, Abū Muḥammad ibn Masrūr, and a number of additional transmitters.

He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda of the year 306 AH. He was counted among the great reservoirs of knowledge and jurisprudence.

129 – al-Ushnānī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Sahl ibn al-Fayzurān*
He was an imām and the leading Qurʾān reciter in Baghdad: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Sahl ibn al-Fayrūzān al-Ushnānī, a close companion of ʿUbayd ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ.

He read the Qurʾān to ʿUbayd and, after him, to a number of the students of ʿAmr ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ. He excelled in the science of recitation technique and lived to an advanced age.

He transmitted ḥadith from Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī, and others.

A large number of people recited to him, among them: Abū Bakr ibn Miqsam, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Hāshim, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hāshimī, Ibn Ziyād al-Naqqāsh, al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Muṭṭawwiʿī, and Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Khiraqī.

Among those who claimed to have recited before al-Ushnānī are Abū Aḥmad al-Samarri and ʿAlī ibn—