- al-Jawharī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad*
The judge and erudite scholar, Abū ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar ibn Ḥabīb al-Sāmarrī, known as al-Jawharī.
He studied under ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, and al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān.
Ibn Yūnus declared him reliable.
Among those who related from him were al-Ṭabarānī, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, and a number of others.
He passed away in 320 AH, in his seventies.
He first served as deputy judge in Egypt, then assumed the judgeship outright, while the magistrate who had appointed him—Hārūn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥammād—remained in Baghdad.
Ibn Zulāq said: “He was a jurist, an accomplished accountant, knowledgeable and intelligent. He held a teaching circle and showed deference to al-Ṭaḥāwī, saying, ‘He is older than I am, and the judiciary is too small a matter for me to boast about.’”
After one year and two months he was removed from office.
He transmitted fifty fascicles from ʿAlī and the greater part of al-Shāfiʿī’s works from al-Rabīʿ.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of that same year.
- Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī**
The imām, eminent ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority: Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn