He died at the end of the year 334 AH, at the age of ninety.
141 – al-Maṭīrī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad
The imam and ḥadith scholar, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Maṭīrī—later known as al-Baghdādī—the money-changer, originally from the village of Maṭīrah near Sāmarrāʾ.
He settled in Baghdad and transmitted ḥadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, and Ibn ʿAffān al-ʿĀmirī.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dāraquṭnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Jumayʿ, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣalt, and others.
Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “He is trustworthy and reliable.” (1)
I say: he died in 335 AH, having already entered his nineties.
142 – al-Ṣūlī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The erudite scholar, man of letters, and polymath, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣūl al-Ṣūlī, al-Baghdādī, famed for his numerous writings.