180 – Ibn Mukram, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and authoritative proof, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mukram al-Baghdādī, a resident of Basra.
He heard ḥadith from Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī, Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, Ibn ʿAdī, al-Ṭabarānī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qaṭṭān, and the scholars of Basra.
Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “Reliable.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Fahd remarked, “No one who came to us from Baghdad was more knowledgeable of ḥadith than Ibn Mukram.”
I say: He died in 309 AH at a little over ninety years of age.
Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted from him in abundance.

181 – al-Qaṭṭān, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd **
The ḥāfiẓ, musnid, and reliable authority, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd ibn al-Azraq al-Raqqī, the Mālikī, a cotton merchant and plasterer by trade, widely-travelled and an author.
He heard from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Ibrāhīm ibn Hishām al-Ghassānī, and al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah,