Al-Hasan ibn ʿAli ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham ibn Taḥmān—Abū ʿAbd-Allāh al-Shāhid, better known as al-Bādā. He studied ḥadith and was deemed reliable. He lived ninety-seven years, fifteen of them confined and unable to walk(1), blind as well. May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn(2) ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad—Abū Bakr al-Ḍabbī, the judge. He held the judiciary in many different provinces(3) and was chaste, scrupulous, dignified, and devout. May Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥārith(4) ibn Asad ibn al-Layth—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī, the Ḥanbalī jurist. He engaged in debates on juristic disagreement, authored works on the subject, heard ḥadith, and transmitted from various scholars. Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī alleged that he fabricated a ḥadith(5). Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī rejected this, saying, “That has always been al-Khaṭīb’s practice with the followers of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.” He continued, “The shaykh from whom al-Khaṭīb reported this—Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Asadī al-ʿUkbarī(6)—is not to be relied upon, for he was a Muʿtazilite, not a man of ḥadith, and he claimed that the unbelievers would not abide eternally in Hell.”

I say: This is extraordinary, for they(7) assert the necessity of eternal punishment for the perpetrators of major sins—so how could he deny eternal punishment for the unbelievers?

He added, “The same statement has likewise been reported from Ibn Baṭṭa(8).”

ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm(9)—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥuṣrī, the Sufi, preacher, and head of the Sufis in Baghdad, originally came from Basra.