Among the notable figures who died that year were:

• Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān, the jurist (1) — the transmitter through whom Sahih Muslim is related.

• Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣalt (2) ibn al-Mughallis, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥimmānī, one of the fabricators of hadith. He claimed to narrate—supposedly from his uncle (3) Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis, Abū Nuʿaym, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, and others—reports that he himself invented, chiefly in praise of Abū Ḥanīfah and on other subjects. He likewise ascribed to Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, and Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith accounts that were pure fabrication. Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī said: Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fawāris told me, “Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣalt used to forge hadith.” (4)

• Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī (5).

• al-Mufaḍḍal al-Janadī (6).

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Wahb al-Dīnawarī (7).

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thābit ibn Yaʿqūb (8), Abū Muḥammad—known as al-Muqwāʾ the grammarian, al-Tawwazī. He settled in Baghdad and related from ʿUmar (9) ibn Shabbah; in turn, Abū ʿAmr al-Sammāk narrated from him.

From his poetry (10):
If you do not memorize and comprehend,
The knowledge kept at home will do no good;
You sit in gatherings wrapped in ignorance
While your learning lies abandoned in the books.
Whoever lives his life in such a state
Will find his days forever falling back.