Saʿīd, ibn Abī Zayd ibn ʿAyyād (1), the Andalusian, al-Lariyyī (2).
He studied Qur’anic recitation with Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Isḥāq, Ibn Hudhayl, and Abū Marwān ibn al-Ṣayqal.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Dabbāgh, Ṭāriq ibn Yaʿīsh, and several others.
He was an unimpeachable, firmly grounded authority, wholly devoted to the science of hadith, extraordinarily prolific, and highly versed in the biographies of narrators.
His works include: Sharḥ al-Muntaqā li-Ibn al-Jārūd, Sharḥ Kitāb al-Shihāb, the book al-Kifāya fī Marātib al-Riwaya, al-Arbaʿīn fī al-Ḥashr, and al-Arbaʿīn fī al-ʿIbādāt.
Those who transmitted from him were his son Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥajjāj ibn ʿAbda, and Abū Muḥammad ibn Ghalbūn.
He was martyred in the incident of Lérida at the age of seventy; this took place on the day of ʿĪd in 575 AH.
92 – Ḥayāt ibn Qays ibn Rajjāl ibn Sulṭān al-Anṣārī*
The shaykh, exemplar, ascetic, worshipper—shaykh and renunciate of Harrān—Ḥayāt ibn Qays