70 – al-ʿĪshī, one of the scholars of Basra (… – 228 AH)

243 – Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾishah declared, “It is impossible, given the attribute of the All-Wise, that He should create speech which claims lordship,” alluding to His words, “Indeed, I—only I—am Allah,” and, “I am your Lord.”

Ibn ʿĀʾishah died in 228 AH, a little over eighty years old.

71 – Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, the scholar of Syria (… – 245 AH)

244 – Abū al-Faḍl Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Maḥmūd al-Ḥāfiẓ said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Bazzār¹ narrated to us: “I heard Hishām ibn ʿAmmār—when he was told that some people were ascribing him to the lafẓiyyah—become angry and say, ‘The Qur’an is the speech of Allah; it is not created. Whoever says that the Qur’an, or the power of Allah, or the might of Allah is created is one of the unbelievers.’ He was asked, ‘What do you say about someone who says, “My articulation of the Qur’an is created”?’ He replied, ‘Say: He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Everlasting Refuge …’ to the end of the sūrah. Then he said, ‘What I have just recited is the speech of Allah.’”

This ʿAbd Allāh is a well-known Herātī.

Hishām was the foremost scholar of Damascus—its Qur’an reciter, hadith specialist, jurist, and preacher. He lived a little over ninety years and died in 245 AH, having met Mālik and narrated from him.

214 – I say: He is likely the same person mentioned in al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl 2/2/164: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār, known as Fūrān, a companion, close associate, and intimate of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; he narrated from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.”

Yet al-Khaṭīb, 10/79, gives his grandfather’s name as al-Muhājir, contrary to what appears here; in that entry his name is written “Fawzān,” with a zāy rather than a dotless rāʾ. He transmitted from al-Dāraquṭnī, who said of him, “A noble and eminent man; Aḥmad used to honor him.” He died in 256 AH.

I add: If he is someone else, I have not found anyone who recorded a biography for him—and Allah knows best.