Tamām ibn Muḥammad (1) ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn [ʿAlī] (2) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, Abū Bakr, the Hāshimite, the ʿAbbāsid.
He transmitted ḥadīth from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, and Ibn Ruzqawayh narrated from him. He died in this same year at the age of eighty-one as well (may Allah have mercy on him).
al-Ḥusayn (3) ibn al-Qāsim (4), Abū ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, the Shāfiʿī jurist.
One of the leading scholars, he authored “al-Muḥarrar” on points of juristic disagreement—the first work ever compiled on the subject—and “al-Ifṣāḥ” (5) on the school, along with a book on dialectics, another on the principles of jurisprudence, and other compositions. We have already given his full biography in “al-Ṭabaqāt.”
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm (6) ʿĪsā ibn Abī Jaʿfar (7) al-Manṣūr, Abū Jaʿfar, the Hāshimite imām, known as Ibn Burayh (8).
Born in 263 AH, he heard ḥadīth from Ibn Abī al-Dunyā and others, and Ibn Ruzqawayh narrated from him. He served for a long time as preacher of the Manṣūr congregational mosque, delivering the sermon there in 330 AH—exactly one hundred years after al-Wāthiq had preached in the same mosque in 230 AH, both men sharing the same lineage back to al-Manṣūr. He died in Ṣafar of this year.
ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh (9) ibn Mūsā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, Abū al-Sāʾib al-Hamadhānī, the Shāfiʿī judge.
He was intelligent and accomplished, and he held the judiciary, though there was some confusion in his affairs. One of his contemporaries saw him in a dream after