Muḥammad ibn Babshādh, Abū ʿUbayd Allah al-Baṣrī (1):
He settled in Baghdād and related ḥadith there from ʿUbayd Allah ibn Maʿādh al-ʿAnbarī (2), Bishr ibn Maʿādh al-ʿAqadī, and others. His narrations contain rarities and objectionable reports (3). He passed away in Shawwāl of this very year.

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Shahryār (4): Abū Bakr, the cotton-merchant, originally from Balkh. He transmitted from al-Fallās and Bishr ibn Maʿādh; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī and Ibn al-Jaʿābī, in turn, narrated from him. Ibn Nājah declared him a fabricator, whereas al-Dāraquṭnī said, “There is no harm in him.”

Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥayyān ibn Ṣadaqah ibn Ziyād (5)(6): Abū Bakr al-Ḍabbī, the judge known as Wakīʿ. A learned, upright scholar versed in historical chronicles, jurisprudence, Qur’an recitation, and grammar, he authored several works, among them the book entitled “al-ʿAdad” (The Numbers) (7). He served as judge in Ahwāz. He reported from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, and others, and was himself narrated from by Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣawwāf, and others.

Among his verses of poetry are the following:

Whenever the seekers of knowledge set out at dawn
to gain that learning which will be immortalised in books,
I set out before them, sleeves rolled up and in earnest—
my inkwell is my ear (8) and its notebook is my heart.