Al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī said:
He was the shaykh of the Prophet’s Household ﷺ in his day in Khurāsān and the foremost of the ʿAlids of his age. He was among the people most devoted to prayer, charity, and love for the Companions. I kept his company for a time, and never once did I hear him mention ʿUthmān without saying, “the martyr,” and weeping; nor did I ever hear him name ʿĀʾishah without saying, “the truthful one, daughter of the Truthful, beloved of the Beloved of Allah,” and weeping. He had heard ḥadīth from Ibn Khuzaymah and others of that tier, and his forefathers—whether in Khurāsān or elsewhere—were leaders, noble and eminent men (1).

from the Household of the Messenger (2) of Allah there are among them (3) … before them the necks of the sons of Maʿadd bowed in submission.

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan (4) ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān ibn al-Wiḍāḥ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Anbārī, the poet known as al-Wiḍāḥī.

He related that he had heard ḥadīth from al-Maḥāmilī, [Ibn Makhlad] (5), and Abū Rūq. Al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allāh transmitted some of his poetry, and he was considered the finest poet of his time. Among his verses (6):

May Allah water the Gate of Karkh—its quarter and its dwellings—
and those who reside there—with showers from the rumbling clouds. (7)
If the mourner for the ruins of the house at al-Liwa
and her neighbour Umm al-Rabab at Maʾsal
Had beheld the courtyards of Karkh or set foot on its soil,
he would have ceased his litany of Dakhul and Ḥawmal.

Abū Bakr ibn al-Jiʿābī (8): Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim ibn al-Barāʾ ibn Subrah ibn Sayyār, known as Abū Bakr ibn al-Jiʿābī, judge of Mosul.

He was born in Ṣafar of the year 284 AH, heard a vast amount of ḥadīth, trained under Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, and received from him