40 – al-Naḍrī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan*
The Imām, the truthful authority, the long-lived scholar and judge, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Ḥakīm al-Naḍrī al-Marwazī, was the judge of Marw and its foremost transmitter of ḥadīth.
He travelled to Baghdad and heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, and others. His father had earlier studied under ʿAbbās al-Dūrī and Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī.
Those who narrated from Abū al-ʿAbbās include al-Ḥākim, Abū Ghānim al-Kurāʿī al-Marwazī, and a number of scholars.
He lived a long life—ninety-seven years—and died in Shaʿbān of the year 357 AH.
In that same year passed away: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿUtbah al-Rāzī in Egypt; Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Kathīr ibn al-Rayyān al-Lukkī; the ḥadīth master Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rumaīḥ al-Nasawī; al-Muttaqī lillāh; Nāṣir al-Dawlah ibn Ḥamdān; Ḥamzah al-Kinānī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAbbās, father of al-Mukhalliṣ; ʿUmar al-Baṣrī the muḥaddith; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥarram; Abū ʿAlī ibn Ādam al-Fazārī; and Abū Sulaymān Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥarrānī.
41 – Ibn Muḥarram, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī**
The Imām, jurist-consult, and long-lived scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī