al-Walid ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Dirafs al-Ghassani, of Damascus.
He transmitted hadith from Hisham ibn ʿAmmar, Duhaim, Hisham ibn Khalid al-Azraq, Yunus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿla, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Abu Zurʿah ibn Abi Dujanah, his brother Abu Bakr, Jumah ibn al-Qasim, al-Fadl ibn Jaʿfar, Abu ʿUmar ibn Fadalah, Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani, Abu Ahmad ibn ʿAdi, and others.
Al-Dirafs—spelled only with undotted letters—is one of the names for a lion.

150 – Ibn Zanjawayh, Ahmad ibn Zanjawayh ibn Musa al-Mukharrami
The proficient muhaddith, Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad ibn Zanjawayh ibn Musa; others say he was Ahmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Zanjawayh ibn Musa al-Mukharrami, the cotton dealer.
Al-Khatib distinguished between these two versions (1), yet they refer to one and the same man.
He heard hadith from Muhammad ibn Bakkar, Bishr ibn al-Walid, Luwayn, Dawud ibn Rushayd, Hisham ibn ʿAmmar, Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hizami, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAli ibn Luʾluʾ, Ibn al-Muzaffar, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Zabibi, al-Tabarani, al-Ajurri, Abu Ahmad ibn ʿAdi, and several others.
He was considered reliable and well-known.
He died in the year four and three hundred (304 AH).