Al-Mustaghfirī went on to say: “Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz the Qurʾān-reciter, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn. He died in 329 AH.

I say: he was the last person to transmit the Ṣaḥīḥ directly from its author.(1)

124 – al-Kulaynī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb *
The foremost shaykh of the Shīʿah and leading scholar of the Imāmiyyah, a prolific author, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rāzī al-Kulaynī—spelled with a final nūn.

Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaymarī and others narrated from him. He lived in Baghdad, where he died, and his grave there is well known. He passed away in 328 AH. The name is pronounced with ḍamma on the kāf and with an imālah on the lām; this is how al-Amīn recorded it.(2)

125 – Abū ʿAlī al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb **
The imam, ḥadith scholar, jurist, erudite authority, ascetic, devoted worshipper, and shaykh of Khurāsān, Abū