16 – Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, tireless traveller, and reliable authority: Abū Zurʿah Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥakam, known as the younger al-Rāzī.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim; the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī; Ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Fārisī, resident of Balkh; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Bukhārī, the teacher; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm; Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣābūnī of Egypt; Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Razāy, the father of Tammām; and their contemporaries.
He travelled widely and possessed sound expertise.
Those who transmitted from him include: Tammām al-Rāzī; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Fallākī; ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jārūdī; Abū Zurʿah Rūḥ ibn Muḥammad; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī; ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī; and many others.
He composed several works.
Al-Tanūkhī relates that his journey to Baghdad took place in 324 AH, when he was a youth of fourteen years ⦗1⦘.
I say: Ḥamzah al-Sahmī questioned him about al-jarḥ wa-al-taʿdīl (narrator critique and accreditation).
He died on the road to Mecca in 375 AH ⦗2⦘.