and he also heard in Mecca from al-Fākihī. He was appointed judge in Khurasan and remained there for six years, during which he wrote, engaged in scholarly debate, and his merit became well-known. He was an expert in the points of transmission of hadith; no one more comprehensive than he was ever seen. He died in 397 AH at the age of seventy-four.

His son, Abū Zurʿah Muḥammad (1) ibn ʿAbd Allāh, heard in Iraq from al-Dāraquṭnī and Ibn Shāhīn, and in Ahwaz from Ibn ʿAbdān; he was killed in 408 AH. As for his father Abū Zurʿah, he is mentioned under the year 330 AH (2).

15 – Abū Zurʿah al-Kashshī Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad*
The imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the trustworthy authority: Abū Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Junayd al-Jurjānī, known as al-Kashshī.

Kash—with a dotted shīn—is a village in Jurjān three parasangs away. As for Kis, located beyond the [Oxus] River, it is a small town; from it came ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd. The word is pronounced with a kasra on the kāf and an undotted sīn.

He heard from Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī al-Jurjānī, and from Abū