33 – al-Ḥabībī, Abū Aḥmad ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
A hadith scholar of advanced age, Abū Aḥmad ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥabībī, from Marw.
He transmitted hadith from Saʿīd ibn Masʿūd, ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ, Sahl ibn al-Mutawakkil, and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ḥātim.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mandah, al-Ḥākim, Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhuhlī, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ghunjar.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He lies like wine; al-Ḥasnawī is in a better state than he.”
I (the author) say: He died in Rajab 351 AH, and he belongs to the tenth decade of that century.
34 – Ibn Qāj, Aḥmad ibn Qāj ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī **
The imam and hadith scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Qāj ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, the bookseller.
What he heard in hadith is beyond description in its abundance.
He received hadith from Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim al-Baghawī, al-Bāghandī, Ibn Jarīr, and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Razqawayh, Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghailān, and others.