He received his legal training from Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī, compiled al-Jāmiʿ on the Shāfiʿī school, produced a commentary on al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar, authored works on uṣūl (legal theory), and was an unrivaled imām whom no one could outstrip. The jurists of Basra derived their fiqh from him. He died in 362 AH.
– Ibn ʿUmārah: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah al-Laythī (repeated *52)
The eminent traditionist, Abū Ḥārith Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah ibn Aḥmad al-Laythī, a client of Kinānah, from Damascus.
He narrated from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah—whom I believe he was the last to transmit from—Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Busrī, Zakariyyā “the copyist of the Sunnah,” Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Ibrāhīm ibn Duḥaym, and others.
Among those who narrated from him were Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, and many more.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of 362 AH, having reached nearly ninety years of age.
122 – al-Saqaṭī: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf al-Muʿaddil **
A ḥadith scholar, Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf al-Saqaṭī al-Muʿaddil of Baghdad. al-Dāraquṭnī made a selective extraction of ḥadiths from him.