He was regarded as trustworthy, and he died in Ramadan of this year at the age of ninety-three (1).

• Khalaf ibn Muḥammad (2), son of ʿĪsā, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Wāsiṭī, nicknamed Kurdūs, narrated from Yazīd ibn Hārūn and others. Al-Mahāmilī and Ibn Makhlad transmitted from him. Ibn Abī Ḥātim (3) said, “He is ṣadūq (truthful),” and al-Dāraquṭnī (4) said, “Reliable.” He died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the same year, a little over eighty years old.

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawḥ (5) ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī, known as ʿAbdūs, narrated from Shabābah and Yazīd ibn Hārūn. Al-Mahāmilī, Ibn al-Sammāk, and Abū Bakr ash-Shāfiʿī reported from him. He, too, was among the trustworthy and died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year.

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Saʿd (6), Abū Muḥammad al-Warrāq (7), originally from Balkh and later settled in Baghdad, narrated from Surayj ibn Yūnus, ʿAffān, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and others. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Baghawī, and al-Mahāmilī narrated from him. He was reliable, well-versed in history, literature, and witty anecdotes. He died in Wāsiṭ in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year at the age of seventy-seven.

• Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (8) ibn Ziyād, Abū ʿAbd Allāh—some say Abū Bakr ad-Dūlābī—heard from Abū al-Naḍr, Abū al-Yamān, and Abū Muʿshir. Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, and Ibn al-Sammāk narrated from him. He was considered trustworthy.