151 – al-ʿĀmirī, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan
The itinerant hadith scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Sakan al-Qurashī al-ʿĀmirī, was counted among the hadith masters, although there was some softness (leniency) in him.
He narrated from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī, Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Khaṭmī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sahm, and their contemporaries.
Those who reported from him include Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dujānah, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqb, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Shaykh, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān al-Shīrāzī, who said, “He came to us in the year four and three hundred (304 AH), and I did not transmit from him; he was lenient.”
152 – Yamūt ibn al-Muzarraʿ (1) ibn Yamūta ibn ʿĪsā al-ʿAbdī
The erudite historian, Abū Bakr al-ʿAbdī al-Baṣrī, a man of letters; his given name was Muḥammad.
(*) Tarikh Baghdad, 4/425; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir, 2/57 (a); Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 1/138; Lisan al-Mizan, 1/266-267; Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsakir, 1/455-456.
(1) Ibn Khallikan states (Wafayat, 7/59) that the nisba “al-Mazraʿ” is pronounced with a ḍamma on the m, a fatḥa on the z, a doubled ra marked with fatḥa, and an unpointed final ʿayn; he attributes this reading to the hadith scholar Zaki al-Din Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzim b. ʿAbd al-Qawi al-Mundhiri. Al-Suyuti adds (Bughyat al-Wuʿat) that some read the ra with fatḥa, whereas hadith specialists tend to give it a kasra.
(**) Tabaqat al-Nuhah wa-l-Lughawiyyin, 215-216; Muʿjam al-Shuʿaraʾ, 505-506; Jumharat Ansab al-Arab, 2/298; Tarikh Baghdad, 14/358-360; Nuzhat al-Albaʾ, 238; Al-Muntazam, 6/143; Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, 20/57-58; Al-Kamil fi l-Tarikh, 8/96 and 106; Inbaʾ al-Ruwat, 4/74; Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 7/53 and 59; Al-ʿIbar, 2/128; Mirʾat al-Jinan, 2/241-244; Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 11/127; Al-Balgha fi Tarikh Aʾimmat al-Lugha, 289; Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ (al-Jazari), 2/392; Al-Nujum al-Zahira, 2/191; Bughyat al-Wuʿat, 2/353; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/243-244.