48 — Muhammad ibn Abd al-Alā al-Sanānī (Ibn Abd al-Alā) (1). Abū Abd Allah al-Basrī narrated from Mutamir ibn Sulaymān, Yazīd ibn Zuray, Ibn Ulayyah, and others. Muslim, Abū Dāwūd in The Book of Divine Decree, and others—but not al-Bukhārī—narrated from him. He died in 245 AH.

49 — Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib (2). The trustworthy hadith scholar, jurist, and nobleman Abū Abd Allah narrated from Abū Awānah, Hammād ibn Zayd, and others. Muslim, al-Nasāī, al-Tirmidhī, and others narrated from him. He died in 244 AH.

50 — Muhammad ibn al-Alā ibn Kurayb al-Hamdānī, the hadith master (Abū Kurayb) (3). The trustworthy hadith master and shaykh of the hadith scholars narrated from Ibn al-Mubārak, Ibn Uyaynah, Ibn Idrīs, Abdah ibn Sulaymān, and others. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, the four compilers, and others narrated from him. He died in 248 AH.

51 — Muhammad ibn Awf al-Tāī (4). The accomplished hadith master and hadith scholar of Homs, Abū Jafar al-Tāī al-Himsī, heard hadith from Ubayd Allah ibn Mūsā, Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū al-Mughīrah, and others. Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurah, Abū Hātim, al-Nasāī in The Musnad of Alī, Ibn Sāid, and others narrated from him. He died in 272 AH (may Allah have mercy on him).