the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and other works.
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Dīnawarī said, “I read the Sunan to him six times, and I heard him say: ‘My father brought me to the audition of this book when I was eight years old, so he recorded my presence but did not record it as direct listening; later I heard it myself when I was ten.’”
Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 414 AH.”
- Al-Idrīsī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
The ḥāfiẓ, imām, and author, Abū Saʿd (2) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Idrīs al-Idrīsī, al-Istarabādī (3), the traditionist of Samarqand. He compiled its History (Taʾrīkh Samarqand), the History of Istarabād, and other works.
He received ḥadith from: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Aṣamm—his senior-most teacher—Abū Nuʿaym Muḥammad ibn Ḥammuyah al-Istarabādī, Abū Sahl Hārūn ibn Aḥmad ibn Hārūn, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, and many others, and he authored al-Abwāb wa al-Shuyūkh.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿAlī al-Shāshī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Khabbāzī, and Abū Masʿūd.