ʿAli b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad (1) b. Bayān (2) al-Razzāz (3):
He was the last person to transmit from Ibn Makhlad the fascicle (4) of al-Ḥasan b. ʿArafah, and he alone preserved several other reports as well. He died this year at the age of ninety-seven.
ʿUqayl, son of Imām Abū l-Wafāʾ ʿAlī (5) b. ʿAqīl the Hanbalī (6):
A talented youth who had memorised the Quran, wrote an elegant hand, and grasped meanings with acuity. When he died, his father (7) bore the loss with patience, thanked Allah, and outwardly displayed fortitude. During the condolence gathering a reciter intoned: “They said, ‘O noble one, indeed he has a father who is an old man; so take one of us in his place.’” (Qur’an 12:78). At this Ibn ʿAqil wept bitterly.
Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār, Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī (8):
He studied ḥadith (9), transmitted them, preached at the Niẓāmiyyah in Baghdad, and in Marw dictated one hundred and forty sessions. Thoroughly versed in ḥadith, he was also a cultured man of letters and a gifted poet who enjoyed great esteem. He passed away in Marw at the age of forty-three.
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, Abū Bakr al-Nasawī, the Shāfiʿī jurist (10):
He heard ḥadith and was charged with the attestation of witnesses in Baghdad. He was virtuous, devout, and God-fearing.
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ṭāhir b. Ḥamd (11), Abū Manṣūr (12) al-Khāzin (13):
Jurist of the Imāmiyyah and their mufti in al-Karkh. He heard ḥadith from al-Tanūkhī and Ibn Ghīlān, and died in Ramadan.