A turmoil broke out, and Kāfūr (1) sent for him, so he went into hiding. He was later brought before Kāfūr, who said, “Did I not send word to you not to make this book public? Then do not bring it out!” The work contained a discussion of the divine istiwāʾ (establishment over the Throne), which the Muʿtazilites repudiated.

241 – Ibn Abī Hurayrah, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī *
The imām, leading authority of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Hurayrah al-Baghdādī, the judge, counted among the aṣḥāb al-wujūh (those whose legal opinions carry full weight in the school).
The leadership of the madhhab eventually rested with him.
He first studied under Ibn Surayj and then under Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī, and he composed a commentary on al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar.
His pupils included Abū ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, al-Dāraqūṭnī, and others, and his reputation spread throughout the lands.
He died in 345 AH.

242 – al-Khāmī, Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr **
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥadith scholar, truthful and long-lived: Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad