269 – Al-Jallāb ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān ibn al-Marzubān
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and exemplar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān ibn al-Marzubān al-Hamadānī, known as al-Jallāb (1) and also called al-Jazzār, was one of the pillars of the Sunnah in Hamadhān.
He studied under Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzīl, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Tamṭām, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr, and others of their generation.
Among those who narrated from him were Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anmāṭī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, the judge ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Fāris, and many others.
Shīrawayh al-Daylamī said, “He was truthful, an exemplar, and he had followers.”
He died in 342 AH.
Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad commented, “The transmissions taken from him by the earlier students are sounder.”
Most of his books were lost during the ordeal, and he subsequently lost his sight.
270 – Al-Aswārī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, imām, trustworthy ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn