(1) Al-Shāfiʿī: his biography was given above, p. 134. (2) In the original manuscript the name appears as “Sarih” (sic), which is incorrect. He is Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Sarīj al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī (229–306 AH), a renowned Shāfiʿī imam and disseminator of his school, author of al-Aqṣām wa al-Khaṣāʾiṣ fī Furūʿ al-Fiqh al-Shāfiʿī. See: al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tarīkh Baghdād, vol. 4, p. 287; al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ wa al-Lughāt, vol. 2, pp. 251–252; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 1, pp. 66–67. (3) Abu ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Hurayra (d. 345 AH), a Shāfiʿī jurist and one of al-Shāfiʿī’s leading teachers, author of a commentary on al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar and various jurisprudential treatises. See: al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tarīkh Baghdād, vol. 7, pp. 298–299; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 2, p. 75. (4) al-Hasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd ibn ʿĪsā al-Iṣṭakhrī al-Shāfiʿī (244–328 AH), jurist who served as qāḍī in Qom and as muḥtasib in Baghdad, author of Kitāb al-Aqdiyah. See: al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tarīkh Baghdād, vol. 7, pp. 268–270; al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ wa al-Lughāt, vol. 2, pp. 237–239; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 2, pp. 74–75. (5) Abu ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Khayrān (d. 320 AH), a Shāfiʿī jurist renowned for his scrupulous piety and scholarly excellence; he declined the post of qāḍī in Baghdad under Caliph al-Muqtadir. See: al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tarīkh Baghdād, vol. 8, pp. 53–54; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 2, pp. 133–134; al-Ṣubkī, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya, vol. 3, pp. 271–274. (6) Abu Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Isfarāʾīnī (344–406 AH), a Shāfiʿī jurist who served as head of the school in Baghdad, author of a commentary on al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar and of his major work al-Taʿlīqa al-Kubrā.