—al-Dūrī, the Baghdadi.
He received hadith from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Khaṭmī, and others of their rank.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar al-Khirqī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ibn Luʾluʾ the bookseller, and many more.
He was one of the great repositories of knowledge—meticulous and precise in transmission.
He died at the beginning of 307 AH.
In that same year passed away Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī, Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Sinān, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Dharīḥ, Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Shujāʿī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Farqadī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jārūd, and Usāmah ibn Aḥmad al-Tujībī.
169 – al-Shaṭawī, Abū Aḥmad Hārūn ibn Yūsuf *
The imām and distinguished scholar: Abū Aḥmad Hārūn ibn Yūsuf al-Shaṭawī, formerly known as Ibn Miqraḍ.
He heard narrations from Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā ibn Mā Sarjis, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him are Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAskarī, ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ, ʿUmar ibn al-Zayyāt, and al-Ismāʿīlī, who also declared him trustworthy.
He died in Dhul-Ḥijjah of 303 AH.