ʿAlī, and the foremost linguist Abū Bakr ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn Nūḥ al-Jundīsābūrī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī, and Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb an-Naysābūrī—the weak one. He transmitted from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah.
16 – Makḥūl ibn al-Faḍl Abū Muṭīʿ an-Nasafī*
A ḥāfiẓ, widely-travelled scholar and jurist. Abū Muṭīʿ an-Nasafī was the author of the book “al-Luʾluʾiyyāt,” dealing with asceticism and etiquette.
He narrated from: Dāwūd aẓ-Ẓāhirī, Abū ʿĪsā at-Tirmidhī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn aḍ-Ḍurays, Muṭayyan, and many others.
Narrators from him include Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, one of the teachers of Jaʿfar al-Mustaghfirī.
Al-Mustaghfirī mentioned him in “The History of Nasaf,” stating that his given name was Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl, Makḥūl being his sobriquet, and that he died in Ṣafar of the year 308 AH.
I say: I saw a damaged manuscript of one of his works with Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḍarīr, and he composed fine poetry.
17 – Makḥūl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Bayrūtī**
The ḥāfiẓ, imām, hadith scholar, and indefatigable traveller. He is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Abī Ayyūb al-Bayrūtī, nicknamed Makḥūl.