He was al-Iskāfī the scribe, popularly known as al-Qarārīṭī. He had first served as secretary to Muḥammad ibn Rāʾiq. After the dismissal of the vizier Ibn al-Buraydī, he himself was appointed vizier for the caliph al-Muttaqī li-llāh, but was removed after only thirty-nine days and fined more than two hundred thousand dinars. A few months later he was reinstated, yet eight months into this second term he was arrested. He then departed for Syria and worked there as secretary to its ruler, Sayf al-Dawlah. Later, during the vizierate of al-Muhallabī, he returned to Baghdad, where al-Muhallabī received him warmly and granted him a generous stipend.

He transmitted hadith from al-Akhfash al-Ṣaghīr and others, and was in turn narrated from by al-Mufīd and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Jarrāḥī. He was, however, a harsh and tyrannical man. He lived seventy-six years and died in Muḥarram 357 AH.

79 – al-Tabasī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sahl
The senior Shāfiʿī scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Tabasī, was a disciple of Imām Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī. He heard hadith from Ibn Khuzaymah, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, and others. He compiled a large taʿlīqa on the school—nearly one thousand fascicles. Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, who recorded that he died in 358 AH.