15 – Salm ibn al-Faḍl ibn Sahl, Abū Qutaybah al-Baghdādī
The ḥadith expert and scholar, Abū Qutaybah al-Baghdādī, al-Adamī, who settled in Egypt.
He received narrations from Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Maʿmarī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Ibn Nājah, and a host of others.
Among those who reported from him were Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naẓīf, Ibn Manda, and others.
He was regarded as truthful.
He died in 350 AH, though it was also said: 351 AH.
16 – The Jurist of Cordoba, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Luʾluʾī
Shaykh of the Mālikīs and the pre-eminent scholar of his age, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Luʾluʾī.
Ibn ʿAfīf said, “He was the most learned jurist of his time and the keenest in issuing fatwas; all knowledge revolved around him, and through him Ibn Zarb (1) studied jurisprudence. He was also cross-eyed (2).”