4 - Qutb al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Maymun ibn Rashid al-Qabsi, Shaykh Abu Bakr, son of Shaykh Abu al-Abbas al-Qastallani, the Meccan, the Shafi'i. He was born in the year six hundred and fourteen in Egypt, and traveled to Mecca, Damascus, Baghdad, Kufa, and other places. He studied jurisprudence, hadith, Qur'anic exegesis, juristic disagreement, and various types of knowledge. He authored numerous works, including an abridgment on the science of hadith which he titled "al-Manhaj al-Mubhij 'inda al-Istima' li-man raghiba fi 'ulum al-hadith 'ala al-ittila'" and an abridgment on ambiguous names in hadith, among others. A number of major hadith scholars heard from him, such as al-Dumyati and Qutb al-Din al-Halabi, who said: "He was an imam, a scholar, a hadith transmitter, a memorizer, a mufti, trustworthy, an authority, of good character, generous, chaste, hospitable to those who came to him, attentive in listening to what was read to him, and diligent in attending to people's needs." Among those who heard from him was the memorizer Abu al-Fath Ibn Sayyid al-Nas. He died in the year six hundred and eighty-six. (1)

5 - Fakhr al-Din Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Bakr al-Tawzari al-Maliki, resident of Mecca. He was born in the year six hundred and thirty. He read "Sahih Muslim" under Ibn al-Burhan, heard extensively from al-Mundhiri, and recited the seven canonical readings. He used to say that he had read al-Bukhari thirty times. His chain of teachers reached nearly one thousand, and he transmitted a great deal. He secluded himself in Mecca in devotion, and he had authoritative manuscript copies.--------------------------------------------
(1) "al-'Iqd al-Thamin fi Tarikh al-Balad al-Amin" by Taqi al-Din al-Fasi, 1/321-330.