344 – Ibn Bint ʿAdabbas* Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Dimashqī
The imam and ḥadith scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Hishām al-Kindī, a Damascene better known as Ibn Bint ʿAdabbas.
He narrated from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Abū Zurʿah, Aḥmad ibn Fīl al-Bālisi, ʿAbd al-Bārī al-Jisrīnī, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, Tammām al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʿādh al-Dārānī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Tamīmī.
Al-Kattānī said, “He is trustworthy and reliable.”
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 347 AH.
345 – al-Asdabādī** al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, imam, ḥāfiẓ, exemplar, and devout worshipper, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Asdabādī (1), al-Hamadhānī, author of several works—some sources list the name “Aḥmad” in place of his grandfather Muḥammad—was a tireless traveller who ranged far and wide.