45- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Rāzī ⦗172⦘
46- al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī ⦗173⦘
47- Imām al-Shāfiʿī, one of the imams of the legal schools ⦗176⦘
48- al-Qaʿnabī ⦗178⦘
49- ʿAffān, one of the luminaries of the Sunnah ⦗178⦘
50- ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, teacher of al-Bukhārī ⦗179⦘
51- al-Ḥumaydī (ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr) ⦗180⦘
52- Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī, scholar of the East ⦗180⦘
53- Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Rāzī, scholar of Rayy ⦗181⦘
54- ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mājishūn, jurist of Medina ⦗182⦘
55- Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-ʿĀbid, shaykh of Baghdad ⦗183⦘
56- Sunayd ibn Dāwūd al-Muṣayyisī ⦗183⦘
57- Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād al-Khuzāʿī ⦗184⦘
58- Bishr al-Ḥāfī, ascetic of the age ⦗185⦘
59- Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām ⦗185⦘
60- Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Khuzāʿī ⦗186⦘
61- A ḥadith transmitted by al-Abbār from the wife of Makī ibn Ibrāhīm ⦗187⦘
62- Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, shaykh of Khurāsān ⦗187⦘
63- Abū Maʿmar al-Qaṭīʿī, the ḥāfiẓ ⦗188⦘
64- Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, chief of the ḥadīth masters ⦗188⦘
65- ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī ⦗188⦘
66- Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, the Imām ⦗189⦘
67- Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh ⦗191⦘
68- Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Aʿrābī, imām of the Arabic language ⦗194⦘
69- Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī ⦗196⦘