• ʿAbd Allāh ⦗1⦘ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṭālib ⦗2⦘ al-Baghdādī. He settled in Egypt and taught ḥadith there; the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd al-Miṣrī heard from him.
• ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ⦗3⦘ ibn Aḥmad, Abū Ḥafṣ ⦗4⦘, known as al-Kattānī the Qurʾān-reciter. Born in 300 AH, he narrated from al-Baghawī, Ibn Mujāhid, and Ibn Ṣāʿid; al-Azhari and others transmitted from him. He was trustworthy and righteous.
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ⦗5⦘ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Daqqāq, known as Ibn Akhī Mīmī. He heard al-Baghawī and others; many scholars narrated from him, and even in advanced age he continued writing ḥadith until he died at ninety ⦗6⦘. He was trustworthy, reliable, devout, virtuous, and of fine character. His death occurred on the night of Friday, the twenty-eighth of Shaʿbān of this year.
• Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ⦗7⦘—Aḥmad ibn [ʿUmar ibn] ⦗8⦘ Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may Allah be pleased with him)—the sharīf, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī of Kufa. Born in 315 AH, he heard ḥadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda and others. He resided in Baghdad, owned great wealth and extensive estates, [together with a vast income] ⦗9⦘, enjoyed an ample retinue, and possessed high ambition. He was the foremost of the Prophet’s descendants in his time. ʿAḍud al-Dawla once confiscated his fortune, seized most of his assets, and imprisoned him; thereafter Sharaf al-Dawla ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawla released him. Later Bahāʾ al-Dawla fined him one million dinars and more, then jailed him again, then freed him and appointed him governor of Baghdad.
It is said that his annual revenues reached two million dinars, and he enjoyed exceedingly great ⦗9⦘ prestige and an exalted leadership.