—though, as far as I can ascertain, he actually passed away in Damascus in 341 AH. He had reached his nineties.
244 – al-Bukhārī, Ḥasan ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf*
The shaykh, truthful and distinguished: Abū al-Faḍl Ḥasan ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf al-Bukhārī, later of Nīshāpūr.
He studied under Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Qaṣṣār, Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Masrah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, and their peers.
Among those who narrated from him are Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim, Ibn Mandah, Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, and others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He is Abū al-Faḍl the Just; he and his father were people of means and wealth.
He possessed a parcel of land (1), a mosque, and orchards, yet he spent all this wealth on scholars and the righteous, while he himself continued to live in the mosque.”
He died in 342 AH.
245 – al-Ardabīlī, Abū al-Qāsim Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar**
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and benefactor: Abū al-Qāsim Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ardabīlī.