5 — Ahmad ibn Hāzim ibn Muhammad, Abū Amr al-Ghifārī (1). He heard hadith from Jafar ibn Awn, Yala ibn Ubayd, and several others. Mutayyan, Ibn Duhaym al-Shaybānī, and many others narrated from him. He was born sometime between 183 and 189 AH and died in 276 AH.

6 — Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Tirmidhī (2), the accomplished hadith master and jurist, Abū al-Hasan al-Tirmidhī. He narrated from Yala ibn Ubayd, Abū al-Nadr, Ubayd ibn Mūsā, Saīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abū Nuaym, and Abū Sālih al-Kātib. Al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, and a number of others narrated from him. He studied jurisprudence under Ahmad ibn Hanbal and possessed keen insight into hidden defects in hadith and the status of narrators. He traveled widely in pursuit of knowledge and possessed vast expertise in hadith. He died sometime between 243 and 249 AH.

7 — Ahmad ibn Surayj al-Rāzī—also said to be Ahmad ibn al-Sabbāh, or Ahmad ibn Abī al-Surayj (3). He narrated from Ismāīl ibn Ulayyah, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, Ubayd Allāh ibn Mūsā al-Absī, and others. Al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāī, Abū Hātim al-Rāzī, and others narrated from him. He died sometime between 243 and 249 AH, when he was in his eighties.

8 — Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Wahb al-Misrī, Abū Ubayd Allāh, known as Bahshal (4), the hadith master, learned scholar, and hadith transmitter. He was the nephew of Egypt’s great scholar, Abd Allāh ibn Wahb, from whom he narrated extensively. He also narrated from al-Shāfiī, Bishr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, and a number of others. Muslim narrated from him and treated his reports as authoritative, as did Abū Zurah, Abū Hātim, al-Tahāwī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Abī Hātim, and many others. He died in 264 AH.