Muẓaffar ibn Ḥājib al-Farghānī of Damascus; and Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān ibn Muḥammad, the judge of the ʿUbaydīd state, who wrote extensively in support of zandaqa (heresy) and the Bāṭinite creed.

Al-Muʾammal ibn Muḥammad al-Bālisī and others, by our authorization, informed us, saying:
“Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī informed us; al-Shaybānī informed us; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Junayd al-Khuṭabī narrated to us; Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ṭayfūr narrated to us; Qutaybah narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Saʿd, from ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, ‘The best among you are those who learn the Qur’an and teach it.’ ”

103 – al-Shimshāṭī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad*
The preacher and Qur’an‐reciter, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shimshāṭī, was a resident of Wāsiṭ.

He read the Qur’an to ʿAmr ibn ʿĪsā al-Adamī, a companion of Khalaf al-Bazzār.

Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Sindī recited before him at Wāsiṭ in 358 AH.

He transmitted hadith from Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, al-Firyābī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Yūsuf al-Qāḍī, and several others.