Abu Bakr al-Najjād the jurist (1): Aḥmad ibn Salmān (2) ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Isrāʾīl ibn Yūnus, known as Abu Bakr al-Najjād, was one of the leading imams of the Ḥanbalī school.
Born in 253 AH, he heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Abu Dāwūd, al-Bāghandī, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, and many others. He sought ḥadith while travelling on foot and barefoot. He compiled a Musnad and authored a sizable work entitled al-Sunan. In the Mosque of al-Manṣūr he maintained two circles: one for jurisprudence and another for the dictation of ḥadith.
Al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Razquwayh, Ibn Shāhīn, Abu Bakr ibn Mālik al-Qaṭīʿī, and others related from him. He fasted perpetually, breaking his fast each night with a single loaf of bread from which he would remove one mouthful; on the eve of Friday he would eat those saved morsels and give away that night’s loaf in charity. He died on the night of Friday, when ten days of Dhu al-Ḥijjah remained, at the age of ninety-five, and was buried near the grave of Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ḥāfī.

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr ibn al-Qāsim (3): Abu Muḥammad al-Khawwāṣ, known as al-Khuldī. He heard an abundance of ḥadith, transmitted widely, performed the pilgrimage sixty times, and was a trustworthy, truthful, and devout man.

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad (4): Abu ʿAmr al-Zujājī al-Naysābūrī. He accompanied Abu ʿUthmān, al-Junayd, al-Nūrī, al-Khawwāṣ, and others. He settled in Mecca, where he was the shaykh of the Sufis, and he too completed sixty pilgrimages. It is said that for forty years he neither defecated nor urinated except entirely outside the Sacred Precinct.

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah (5) ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik: Abu Bakr al-Adamī, famed for his mastery of melody.