They said: His autograph copies were of excellent quality, penned in his father’s own hand; his auditions were sound, and ʿUmar al-Baṣrī made a scholarly selection from them. He died suddenly on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, having passed the age of ninety—may Allah have mercy on him. (1)

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (2), Abū Bakr al-Ājurri: he heard ḥadith from Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, and many others. He was reliable, truthful, and devout, and he authored numerous beneficial works, among them al-Arbaʿūn al-Ājurriyyah (“The Forty Ḥadith of al-Ājurri”). He transmitted in Baghdad before the year 330 AH, then moved to Mecca, where he remained for thirty years until his death—may Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Maṭar (3), Abū ʿAmr al-Zāhid: he amassed extensive learning, journeyed to distant lands, and the leading ḥadith masters took from him. He lived in poverty, moulding clay bricks for the graves of the destitute, sustaining himself on a loaf of bread with a single carrot or onion, and spending the entire night in prayer. He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year at the age of ninety-five. (4)

Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd, Abū Bakr the Sufi (5), known as al-Duqqī: originally from Dīnūr, he settled in Baghdad and later moved to Damascus. He studied the Qur’an with Ibn Mujāhid and heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kharāʾiṭī. He kept company with Ibn al-Jallād and al-Daqqāq. He died this year, having exceeded one hundred years of age—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn al-Farrukhān (6) ibn Rūzbah (7), [Abū] (8) al-Ṭayyib al-Dharawī (9): he entered Baghdad and narrated there