(1) Abu Ya‘qūb al-Ḥanzalī al-Marwazī, known as Sayyid al-Ḥuffāẓ (master of the hadith preservers) and Shaykh al-Mashriq (leader of the East), author of numerous compilations. Imām Aḥmad remarked, “I know of no one in Iraq his equal.” He died at the age of seventy-seven. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 11:358; Al-ʿIbar 1:426) (2) Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī, known as Abū al-Walīd, served as a judge in Iraq. He studied jurisprudence under Abū Yūsuf, heard from Mālik and his students. He was famed for his sound legal rulings, devoted to worship and supererogatory acts (nawāfil), and a truthful muḥaddith (hadith narrator). He died at the age of ninety-seven. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 10:673; Al-ʿIbar 1:427) (3) Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣayrāfī al-Baṣrī, renowned for his longevity and reliability, held a celebrated teaching authority. He narrated from Ḥammād ibn Salama and his students. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 11:25; Al-ʿIbar 1:427) (4) In the A, Za and Ta manuscripts the name appears as al-Zayyāt, but the reading in B and other sources is confirmed. He is Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, known as Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī al-Ruṣāfī, mawla of Banū Hāshim, a muhaddith, ḥāfiẓ, and ṣadūq (truthful). He lived ninety-three years. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 11:112; Al-ʿIbar 1:428) (5) His nisba refers to the village of Burjlān in the Wasit region, or to the Burjilāniyya quarter. He is Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Shaykh al-Burjilānī, author of treatises on subtle hadith issues (raqāʾiq); Ibn Abī al-Dunyā quotes him extensively. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 11:112; Al-ʿIbar 1:428; Al-Libāb 1:134) (6) Abū ʿAbd Allāh, the ḥāfiẓ, scholar, and truthful authority among the great hadith repositories. Ibn ʿAdī commented that he was prone to many errors. (Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalāʾ 11:161; Al-ʿIbar 1:429) (7) In the Za manuscript: “al-Nayrūz”; in Ta: “Yawm al-Nayrūz.” Both derive from Persian meaning “the new day,” i.e., the first day of the solar year.