279 – ʿAllān ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Miṣrī
The Imām, traditionist, and upright transmitter, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ṣayqal, known as ʿAllān al-Miṣrī.
He was born in 227 AH.
While still an adolescent he began writing in 240 AH.
He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, ʿAmr ibn Sawwād, Salama ibn Shabīb, Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Abī Khīrah, and many others of their rank.
He was reliable and possessed a vast number of narrations. Ibn Yūnus said so, adding: “He was among the foremost of the certified witnesses, though there was a certain roughness in his character.” (1)
He died in Shawwāl of 317 AH.
I say: Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Yūnus, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ghālib al-Bazzār, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ikhmīmī, and others.
He lived ninety years.
280 – Waṣīf ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū ʿAlī al-Rūmī al-Anṭākī
The ḥāfiẓ, Imām, and trustworthy authority, Abū ʿAlī al-Rūmī, al-Anṭākī, al-Ushrūsani, a tireless traveller and wanderer. (2)