2 – Biography of Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dūst

He is: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Dūst. Al-Khaṭīb said regarding him: "He was a traditionist who narrated abundantly, knowledgeable." And al-Dhahabī said: "The Imam, the Hadith master, the unique, the Musnid."

He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Muṭayrī, ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ushnānī, Abū ʿAlī al-Bardhʿī, and others.

And from him narrated: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Ḥamza ibn Muḥammad al-Daqqāq, Abū al-Qāsim al-Azharī, and others.

He died in Ramaḍān in the year 407 AH. See: Tārīkh Baghdād (5/124), al-Muntaẓam (7/284), Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (17/322), Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (3/1066), and al-Mīzān (1/153).

3 – Biography of Abū Muḥammad al-Tamīmī

He is: The Imam, the traditionist, Abū Muḥammad Rizq Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tamīmī al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī, the reciter, the preacher.

He was born in the year 400 AH, and heard from: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn al-Mutayyamm, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, Ibn Dūst, and others. And from him narrated: Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, and others.

Al-Samʿānī said: "He is the jurist of the Ḥanbalīs and their Imam." And al-Dhahabī said: "He was an Imam, a reciter, a traditionist, an exegete, an expert in inheritance laws, of grand stature, and immensely respected."

He died in the year 488 AH.

See: Maʿrifat al-Qurrāʾ al-Kibār (1/441, no. 378), and al-Tadhkira (4/1208).