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– Ibn Muyassar (1) Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid *
The leading Mālikī scholar, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid ibn Muyassar, the Alexandrian jurist. He was a close associate of Ibn al-Mawwāz and the transmitter of his book.
He composed several works, and the leadership of the Mālikī school in Egypt ultimately rested with him.
He died in Ramaḍān 309 AH.
It is also said that he related ḥadith from Yazīd ibn Saʿīd al-Iskandarānī.
188 – al-Ḥāsib Abū Aḥmad Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Baghdādī **
A reliable and precise authority, Abū Aḥmad Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Baghdādī, known as “the Accountant.”
He heard ḥadith from Bishr ibn al-Walīd, Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis, and al-Qawārīrī.
Among those who narrated from him are Ibn al-Muẓaffar and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq.
He died in 309 AH.
189 – Ibn Qutaybah, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lakhmī ***
The imam, trustworthy authority, and eminent ḥadith scholar, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah ibn Ziyādah al-Lakhmī al-ʿAsqalanī.