3 - The ḥāfiẓ Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Kurayb al-Hamdānī al-Kūfī. He was born in the year 161 AH, and was knowledgeable in the ḥadīth of the people of Kūfah, being among the most retentive of the people of his time. He died in the year 248 AH at the age of 87 (1). He is a teacher of the Six [canonical ḥadīth collectors].

4 - The ḥāfiẓ, the proof, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hamdānī, then al-Khārifī, their client, al-Kūfī. He was born around the year 160 AH, and was a leader in knowledge and practice. Aḥmad [ibn Ḥanbal] held him in great esteem, and Abū Ḥātim said: "Trustworthy, his ḥadīth is used as evidence." He died in the year 234 AH (2). He is a teacher of al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, and Ibn Mājah.

5 - The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the outstanding scholar, the imām of the people of ḥadīth in Khurāsān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Fāris al-Dhuhlī, their client, al-Naysābūrī. He was born around the year 170 AH. He compiled the knowledge of al-Zuhrī, organized it, and perfected it. Aḥmad [ibn Ḥanbal] praised him and spread word of his virtue. Abū Ḥātim said of him: "The imām of the people of his time." Ibn Abī Dāwūd said: "He was the Commander of the Believers in ḥadīth." He died in the year 258 AH (3). Al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah narrated from him.

6 - The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the precise scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭanāfisī al-Kūfī, the nephew of the Ṭanāfisī scholars of Kūfah—Muḥammad, Yaʿlā, ʿUmar, and Ibrāhīm. He resided in Qazwīn. Abū Ḥātim said: "He was trustworthy and truthful; he is the most beloved to me of the people of his time." He died in the year 233 AH (4). He is a teacher of al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah.

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(1) Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 16/243–247, and Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 11/394–398.
(2) Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 25/566–569, and al-Siyar 11/455–457.
(3) Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 26/617–631, and al-Siyar 12/273–285.
(4) Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 21/338–340, and al-Siyar 11/75–77.