And during the reign of al-Maʾmūn there lived al-Akhfash al-Awsat, the master of Arabic: Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Masʿada (1), a close associate of Sibawayh.
Al-Akhfash al-Kabīr, on the other hand, flourished under Hārūn al-Rashīd. Among those who studied with him were Sibawayh and Abū ʿUbaydah—that is, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Hajarī, the linguist (2).
266 – Ibn Waqdān, Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn Kathīr al-Ṭūsī
A traditionist, reliable and long-lived; Abū Muḥammad Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn Kathīr ibn Waqdān al-Ṭūsī, who resided in Baghdad.
He narrated from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Abī Karīmah, al-Walīd ibn Shujāʿ, Luwayn, Sawwār ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and their peers.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Faḍl az-Zuhrī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, and others.
d. 314 AH.