and two hundred AH.

61 — Yaqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī al-Baghdādī, the hadith master (1). The authoritative imam Abū Yūsuf al-Abdī al-Qaysī—their client, known as al-Dawraqī—heard hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, al-Darāwardī, Ghandar, and others. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, the four compilers, and others narrated from him. He died in 252 AH.

62 — Yūnus ibn Abd al-Alā ibn Maysarah ibn Hafs ibn Hayyān, Shaykh al-Islam, Abū Mūsā al-Sadafī al-Misrī, the Quran recitation scholar and hadith master (2). He heard hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, Ibn Wahb, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and others. Muslim, al-Nasāī, Ibn Mājah, Abū Hātim, Abū Zurah, and others narrated from him. The author heard the Quranic readings from him. He died in 264 AH.

[His Most Prominent Students]

1 — Ahmad ibn Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Nasr, Abū Jafar the scribe, heard hadith from al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Dūrī. Abd Allah ibn Abī Sad al-Warrāq narrated from him (3).

2 — Ahmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Mahdī, Abū al-Faraj al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Khashshāb, heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Jafar al-Tahāwī, and their peers. He died in 364 AH (4).