(1) Abu ’Abd al-Rahman Baqi ibn Makhlad ibn Yazid al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi: a distinguished muhaddith (hadith scholar) and mufassir (Quran exegete), one of the foremost imams. He was born in 201 AH and died in 276 AH. He authored al-Musnad, arranging its reports first by the names of the Companions and then, for each Companion, under the chapters of fiqh (jurisprudence). This work is now lost. See Brockelmann, History of Arabic Literature, vol. 3, pp. 201–202; Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums: ’Ulum al-Qurʾān wa-al-Hadīth, vol. 1/I, p. 296. Excerpts are quoted in Ibn Ḥajar’s al-Isābah. Also cf. Ibn ʿAsākir, at-Tahdhīb, 3/277; Ibn Abī Yaʿlā, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, 1/120; al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, 2/629; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadhdharāt al-Dhahab, 2/169; Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn, 2/1679; al-Zarkalī, al-Aʿlām, 2/33; Kahḥāla, Maʿjam al-Muʾallifīn, 3/53. (2) Abu Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn az-Zubayr ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥumaydī al-Asadī: a leading imam in hadith and the teacher of al-Bukhārī. He died in 219 AH. Among his works is al-Musnad (ed. Ḥabīb al-Raḥmān al-Aʿẓamī), which includes narrations on divine attributes; see, for example, vol. 1, p. 62 (no. 113); vol. 2, p. 350 (no. 799); p. 478 (no. 1126); p. 496 (no. 1178). See also Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, 5/205; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, 2/2/56; al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, 2/413–414; Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn, 2/1682; al-Zarkalī, al-Aʿlām, 4/219; Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums: ’Ulum al-Qurʾān wa-al-Hadīth, vol. 1/I, p. 190.