284 – Ibn Māhiyān, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Jurjānī
The ḥadith scholar, inveterate traveler, and trustworthy transmitter, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Māhiyān (1) al-Jurjānī.
He narrated in Nīshāpūr from al-Dabarī, Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, Tamtām, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and others of their tier.
Al-Ḥākim transmitted from him. He was a theologian, a man of letters, and a learned scholar.
He passed away in Bukhārā in 344 AH.
285 – al-Najjād, Aḥmad ibn Salmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Isrāʾīl
The imam, ḥadith master, memorizer, jurist, muftī, and Shaykh of Iraq, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Salmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Isrāʾīl al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī, known as al-Najjād.
He was born in 253 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī—he journeyed to him and was the last of his students—and from Aḥmad