12 – Ibn Abī al-Mawt, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Makkī
The shaykh and traditionist, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Mawt al-Makkī.
He received traditions from Yūsuf ibn Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh, Aḥmad ibn Zughbah, and al-Qāsim ibn al-Layth al-Rasʿanī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ, and others.
He passed away in Egypt, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 351 AH, at the age of ninety.
13 – The Judge of the Two Sanctuaries, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī
The distinguished scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī al-Ḥanafī, the leading authority of the Ḥanafīs.
He served as judge of the Two Sanctuaries for a little over ten years, after which he returned to Naysābūr and took up its judgeship.
He heard hadith from Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, and a number of others.