58 – Jumaḥ ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Jumaḥī, the Damascene *
Ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb; a hadith scholar of proven reliability. He was Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Jumaḥī, the Damascene mu’adhdhin, known as Ibn Abī al-Ḥawājib.

He transmitted from: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Rawwās; Abū Quṣayy Ismāʿīl al-ʿUdhrī; Aḥmad ibn Bishr al-Ṣūrī; Ibrāhīm ibn Duḥaym; and others.

Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Manda; Tammām al-Rāzī; Abū Naṣr ibn al-Ḥibbān; Makkī ibn al-Ghamr; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī; and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Muzanī said: “I asked him about the year of his birth, and he replied, ‘278 AH.’”

Al-Kattānī remarked: “He was trustworthy and distinguished; Ibn Manda selected narrations from him.”

He died in Shaʿbān 363 AH.

59 – Abū Naṣr, the Judge, Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar al-Azdi al-Mālikī **
He was the Chief Judge, Abū Naṣr Yūsuf, son of the Chief Judge ʿUmar, son of the Chief Judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Ismāʿīl, a descendant of the ḥadith memoriser of Basra, Ḥammād ibn Zayd. He was an Azdite by lineage, Mālikī in jurisprudence, and later inclined to the school of Dāwūd; he resided in Baghdad.

He was born in 305 AH.

He succeeded his father in office and was counted among the finest judges—scrupulous, skilful in issuing rulings, and fully accomplished.