al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He studied ḥadith under ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥawshabī, yet he himself transmitted only a small number of reports. I wrote down some of them from him. He was truthful. Thanks to his keen intelligence he achieved distinction in jurisprudence, and in Iraq the leadership of the followers of Abū Ḥanīfah eventually came to rest with him because of his acumen and the high regard in which he was held. He also excelled in Qurʾānic recitation. He passed away on Sunday, the fifteenth of Rajab this year, at the age of sixty-six, and was buried in his house on Darb Khalaf. May Allah have mercy upon him.”

al-Ḥasan ibn Shihāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Shihāb (2), Abū ʿAlī al-ʿUkbarī, a Hanbalī jurist and poet.
He was born in 335 AH, heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr ibn Mālik and others, and—according to al-Barqānī—was trustworthy and reliable. He earned his living through warāqa, that is, copying manuscripts. It is said that he could write out the dīwān of al-Mutanabbī in three nights and sell it for two hundred dirhams. When he died, the authorities took one thousand dinars from his estate, not counting his real property. He had stipulated that one-third of his wealth be devoted to the Hanbalī students pursuing advanced study with him, but the bequest was not carried out.

Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā (4), Abū al-Faḍl al-Hāshimī.
He held the offices of judge and preacher in Badarzījān (5). Gifted with eloquence, he became blind toward the end of his life yet continued to relate stories and songs from memory. He died in the month of Ṣafar of this year.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, Abū ʿAlī al-Hāshimī the judge—one of the foremost and most distinguished Hanbalī scholars.

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (7) ibn Mūsā (8), Abū al-Ḥusayn (9) al-Ahwāzī, better known as Ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Iṣbahānī.