302 – al-Khathʿamī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ *
The imām, the authoritative proof, the ḥadith scholar: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ al-Khathʿamī, al-Kūfī, known as al-Ashnānī.
He travelled to Baghdad.
He related ḥadith from Abū Kurayb, ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rawājanī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Muḥāribī, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Ibn al-Bawwāb, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Najjār al-Kūfī, who lived on until 402 AH.
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “Abū Jaʿfar is trustworthy, reliable.”
I (al-Dhahabī) say: He was born in 221 AH and died in 315 AH.
In that same year passed away al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUfair, and Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyib al-Arghiyānī.
303 – Ibn ʿUlail, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Anṣārī **
The imām, the long-lived scholar, and imām of the congregational mosque of Damascus: Abū Hāshim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, their client, al-Dimashqī.
He was known as Ibn ʿUlail.