258 – al-Bahrānī, Muḥammad ibn Tammām ibn Ṣāliḥ *
A hadith scholar and man of learning, Abū Bakr al-Bahrānī, originally from Ḥimṣ.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, al-Musayyab ibn Wāḍiḥ, Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maṣṣīṣī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khubayq al-Anṭākī, their peers, and Muḥammad ibn Ādam.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, al-Ḥasan ibn Munayr, al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar al-Tamīmī, Abū Bakr al-Rabʿī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah said: “He reported from Muḥammad ibn Ādam al-Maṣṣīṣī narrations that are objectionable.”
I say: I do not suspect him of any serious flaw.
He died in 313 AH.
It remains to be investigated whether Ibn Ḥibbān cited him in his Ṣaḥīḥ.
259 – al-Shaʿrānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd **
The imām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Shaʿrānī, originally from Juwain—one of the reliable authorities.
He heard hadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Abā Kurayb, and ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ,