180 – Ibn Abī Maṭar, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Maʿāfirī
The imām, jurist, and centenarian; judge of Alexandria and its chief transmitter—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd ibn Abī Maṭar al-Maʿāfirī, the Alexandrian, adherent of the Mālikī school.
He was the sole narrator from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn, a companion of al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbduwayh, a disciple of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
He studied law with Ibn al-Mawwāz, and students undertook journeys to learn from him.
Those who received ḥadith from him include the judge Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bilyānī, Dāris ibn Ismāʿīl, Munīr ibn Aḥmad al-Khashshāb, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Naḥḥās.
None of his narrations are found in the Khilʿiyyāt (1).
He died in 339 AH after living one hundred years.
181 – Addendum to ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar al-Ṭāʾī (2)
The shaykh, trustworthy (ṣadūq), and long-lived, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar, son of the ḥadith scholar ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī, from Mosul.