Muhammad (1), author of the continuation to the History of Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Tabarī. He narrated hadith in Damascus from Ibn Jarīr, Alī ibn al-Hasan ibn Sulaymān, and others. Abū al-Fath ibn Masrūr, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, al-Dāraqutnī, Abd al-Ghanī, and Tamām al-Rāzī narrated from him. Ibn Masrūr declared him trustworthy. He died in 362 AH.

7 — Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Rabīa ibn Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abū Muhammad al-Rabaī al-Baghdādī (2), judge of Damascus, known as Ibn Zabr, was born in 255 AH. He heard hadith from Abbās al-Dūrī, his contemporaries, and many others. However, he never attained precision and was therefore not trustworthy. He served as judge of Egypt three times and authored several works. He died in 329 AH.

8 — Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan, Abū Shuayb al-Harrānī (3). He was older than al-Tabarī. He settled in Baghdad and narrated from his father, his grandfather, and others. Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī, Abū Alī ibn al-Sawwāf, and many others narrated from him. He was born in 206 AH. He lived a long life, becoming the sole surviving transmitter of certain reports, and was trustworthy and dependable. He died in Baghdad in 295 AH. His chains of transmission were the shortest of anyone still living there.

9 — Abd Allah ibn Adī ibn Abd Allah al-Jurjānī, Abū Ahmad, the precise hadith master (4), author of The Comprehensive Work on Narrator Criticism and Accreditation, about which al-Dāraqutnī said:

“It is sufficient concerning weak narrators; nothing need be added to it.”

He was born in 277 AH and died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 365 AH. Abū Bakr al-Ismāīlī led his funeral prayer.