The Twenty-Third Stratum
270 – al-Ḥurfi ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
The shaykh, senior transmitter, and scholar, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarbī, known as al-Ḥurfi.
He heard from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashī; Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Dihqān; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī; Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh; and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bayhaqī, al-Khaṭīb, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Anṣārī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Sarrāj, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Qandās, Thābit ibn Bundār, Aḥmad ibn Sawsan al-Tammār, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlwān, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ayyūb al-Bazzāz, Abū Bakr al-Ṭuraythīthī, and many others besides them.
He held a number of dictation sessions, some portions of which have reached us.