109 – Ibn Abī ʿUthmān, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ismāʿīl
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, master of precision, exemplar, ascetic, and man of letters; Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the ascetic imām Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Ismāʿīl al-Naysābūrī, al-Ḥīrī.
He heard (hadith) from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ, Tamām (1), Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, and Bakr ibn Sahl, and he was widely travelled and deeply learned.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, his son Abū Saʿīd (2), and Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim.
He ranked among the foremost warriors in the cause of Allah and regularly manned the frontier at Ṭarsūs (3).
He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 325 AH.
110 – Al-Maḥāmilī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad
The judge, imām, polymath, reliable hadith scholar, and leading musnid of his time, Abū ʿAbd Allāh.