Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1), Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jallāʾ (2).
A native of Baghdād who later settled in the Levant, he kept company with Abū Turāb al-Nakhshabī (3) and Dhū ’l-Nūn al-Miṣrī.
Abū Nuʿaym relates with his chain from him that he said:
“I once said to my father and mother while I was still a youth, ‘I wish that you would dedicate me entirely to Allah—Exalted is He.’ [They replied, ‘We have indeed dedicated you to Allah.’] (4) I then stayed away from them for a long time. Later I returned to our town one evening on a rainy night; I reached the door and knocked (5).
They asked, ‘Who is it?’
I answered, ‘It is so-and-so, your son.’
They said, ‘We once had a son, but we dedicated him to Allah—Exalted is He. We are Arabs (6); we do not take back what we have given.’ And they did not open the door for me (7).”

al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ibn [Yaʿqūb ibn] (8) Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Zayd (9), the judge Abū Yaʿlā, was the brother of the judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf (10). The judiciary of al-Urdunn (the Jordan) had been entrusted to him.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Ziyād (11), Abū Muḥammad al-Jawāliqī, the judge, better known as ʿAbdān, of Ahwāz.
Born in 216 AH, he was one of the reliable master-scholars of ḥadith, memorising one hundred thousand reports and compiling the names of transmitters and topical chapters.
He narrated from Hudbah, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, and others, and in turn Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Muḥāmalī, and others narrated from him.