6 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid(1) ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Isma'il ibn Mansur al-Sa'di al-Maqdisi al-Salihi, the musnid of the world, Fakhr al-Din, known as Ibn al-Bukhari al-Hanbali. He heard the Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Jami' of al-Tirmidhi, the Sunan of Abu Dawud, the Sahih of al-Bukhari, and others. He died in Rabi' al-Akhir of the year six hundred and ninety(2).

7 - Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ala' al-Din ibn al-Khawajah Shams al-Din, known as Ibn Tulun al-Dimashqi al-Salihi al-Hanafi, the muḥaddith, grammarian, and historian. He was born in the year eight hundred and eighty. He was skilled in grammar, a leading scholar in jurisprudence, and renowned for hadith. He held the teaching post of the Hanafis at the school of Shaykh al-Islam Abu 'Umar, and the imamate of al-Salimiyyah in al-Salihiyyah. His hours were filled with teaching, giving benefit, and authorship. He wrote many books in his own hand and dictated sixty volumes. He had a share in all the sciences, even in dream interpretation and medicine. He died in the year nine hundred and fifty-three, leaving no offspring, and he had no wife at the time of his death(3).

8 - Shams al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr 'Abd Allah ibn Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mujahid ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn Nasir al-Din, the ḥāfiẓ. He was born--------------------------------------------
(1) Thus in most of the books that give his biography, contrary to what Ibn Tulun said, who stated: Ibn 'Abd al-Qadir.
(2) Dhayl al-Taqyid by Taqi al-Din al-Fasi, 2/ biography (1386).
(3) Al-Kawakib al-Sa'irah bi-A'yan al-Mi'ah al-'Ashirah by Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi, 2/ 52-54.