Mahrān al-ʿIshī (1), the jurist, a Shāfiʿī, and one of the foremost disciples of Abū ʿAlī ibn Abī Hurayrah. He narrated from the ḥāfiẓ Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ardabīlī and others of similar standing. Abū Saʿd al-Idrīsī said: he died in 382 AH. This, then, is the younger Abū Zurʿah of Istarabād.
19 – The younger Abū Zurʿah of Damascus, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh*
He is the imam and traditionist Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Dujānah ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣafwān al-Naṣrī, a Damascene, the grand-nephew of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī the Elder. He received ḥadith from al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah, Ibrāhīm ibn Duḥaym, and a number of others. Those who transmitted from him include Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Muhannā, and others. He died sometime before 360 AH. As for Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī al-Dimashqī, he is well-known (2) and died after 280 AH.