= For the biography see: Tadhkirat al-Huffaz (al-Dhahabi), 2:707–709; Al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (al-Safadi), 7:241; Kashf al-Zunun (Haji Khalifa), 2:1679; Shudhurat al-Dhahab (Ibn al-ʿImad), 2:250; Al-A‘lam (al-Zarkali), 1:164. (1) He is Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Hasan b. Sufyan b. ʿAmir b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Shaybani al-Nasawi—nisba to Nasa in Khurasan—a muhaddith and hafiz. Born 213 AH, died 303 AH. He compiled a Musnad of hadith. Szudekin notes that Ibn Hajar cited it in al-Iṣāba on several pages (see Tarikh al-Turath al-ʿArabi, ʿUlūm al-Qurʾan wa’l-Hadith 1/1:332) but offered no further details. In al-Matalib al-ʿAliya bi-Zawa’id al-Masanid al-Thamaniya 1:4, Ibn Hajar reports having examined fragments without transcribing them—an unfortunate omission. See also: Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsakir, 4:181–185; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz (al-Dhahabi), 2:703–705; Shudhurat al-Dhahab (Ibn al-ʿImad), 2:241; Kashf al-Zunun (Haji Khalifa), 2:1682; Al-A‘lam (al-Zarkali), 2:206. (2) He is Abu Bakr Ahmad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAbd al-Khaliq al-Basri al-Bazzar, originally from Basra; a muhaddith and hafiz. Died Ramla, 292 AH. He authored a Musnad titled al-Bahr al-Zakhar (see the introduction to Kashf al-Astar ʿan Zawa’id al-Bazzar by al-Haythami 1:5). Brockelmann notes that Ibn Hajar “edited” it. The work survives in manuscript; its first part was critically edited by Shaykh Mahfuz al-Rahman Zayn al-Din al-Hindi—may Allah grant him success. It includes hadiths on divine attributes; for example: Kashf al-Astar 1:51; Kitab al-Iman, chapter on the love of Quraysh, Ansar, and Arabs (ḥadith no. 65), 3:105; Kitab ʿAlamat al-Nubuwwa, chapter on the mention of Prophet Musa (ḥadith no. 2353), 3:67; Kitab al-Tafsir, Sura Ya-Sin (ḥadith no. 2253). For manuscript copies and their locations see: Tarikh al-Adab al-ʿArabi (Brockelmann), 3:158–159.