305 – al-ʿAtakī, Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān*
The ḥadith scholar, Imām al-Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qāsim ibn Manṣūr al-ʿAtakī of Nīshāpūr.
He studied under al-Sarī ibn Khuzayma, Muḥammad ibn Ashras, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl, Ismāʿīl ibn Qutayba, Aḥmad ibn Salama, and others of their rank.
Al-Ḥākim narrated from him at length, praised him, and said: “He was an alert, intelligent, and truthful shaykh, an excellent reader whose primary manuscripts were sound.”
He died at the end of 346 AH.
I add: he passed away in his nineties and was also known as al-Ṣibghī, a nickname derived from selling dyes.
306 – al-Sukkarī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad**
The imām and authoritative scholar, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Jāmiʿ al-Miṣrī, known as al-Sukkarī, the Qurʾān reciter.
He heard from Miqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī, Rawḥ ibn al-Faraj al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Rashdīnī.
He transmitted the reading of Nāfiʿ through the chain: Bakr ibn Sahl → Abū al-Azhar → Warsh → Nāfiʿ.