, the Baghdadi, nicknamed al-Zabībī—so called from zabīb, “raisins”—a cloth-seller. He was born in the year 278 AH. He transmitted ḥadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAllawayh, al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Aḥwaṣ, Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿAwf, Ibn Nājah, and several others. Among those who narrated from him were al-Barqānī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azjī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, and others. Al-Barqānī, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azjī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, and still others likewise reported from him. Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable and said that he died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 371 AH.
181 – al-Najīramī, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Baṣrī
The shaykh, the musnid, the foremost ḥadith scholar of Basra: Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Najīramī al-Baṣrī. He heard ḥadith from Abū Muslim al-Kajji, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muthannā al-ʿAnbarī, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Māzinī, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, and a number of others. Those who transmitted from him include Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bākawayh al-Shīrāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ghassān, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣakhr al-Azdī, and others. He was active in public narration in 365 AH.