Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān (1), Abū Masʿūd al-Iṣfahānī. He listened to a vast number of traditions, composed several works, and even produced an extraction from the two Ṣaḥīḥs, showing fine expertise in ḥadīth (2). He studied under Ibn Mardawayh, Abū Nuʿaym, and al-Barqānī, while al-Khaṭīb (3) and others transmitted from him. He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah at the age of eighty-nine.

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muḥassin (4) al-Daskarī (5), Abū Saʿd, the Shāfiʿī jurist. He kept the company of Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and transmitted ḥadīth, and he was well loved by the ahl al-ʿilm (people of knowledge) (6). He would say, “This body of mine has never disobeyed Allah for the sake of a pleasure.” He died in Rajab of this year and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb—may Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Jaʿfar (7), Abū al-Ḥasan al-Hakkārī (8). He came to Baghdad and settled in the ribāṭ of al-Zawzanī (9)—he had, in fact, built several ribāṭs (spiritual lodges). He heard ḥadīth, and more than one ḥadīth master narrated from him. He used to say, “I saw the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—in a dream, in the Rawḍah (the blessed garden in his mosque). I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, counsel me.’ He replied, ‘Hold fast to the creed of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and the school of al-Shāfiʿī, and keep away from the company of the ahl al-bidʿah (people of innovation).’” He died in Muḥarram of this year.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (10), Abū al-Ḥasan, the khāṭib of Anbar, known as Ibn al-Akhaḍar. He heard from Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī (11), being the last person to narrate from him. He passed away in Shawwāl at the age of ninety-five—may Allah have mercy on him.