ʿAbbās, ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah, and ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bishr, ʿAṭāʾ, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Ibn Jurayj, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable.
Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī said that he died in 110 AH.
Others said he died in 114 AH, while al-Wāqidī, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, and al-Fallās held that his death occurred in 113 AH.
25 – al-Aʿraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Madanī (ʿ)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative scholar, and Qur’an reciter, Abū Dāwūd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Madanī, known as al-Aʿraj, the client of Muḥammad ibn Rabīʿah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Saʿīd, ʿAbdullāh ibn Mālik ibn Buḥaynah, and a number of others.
He mastered the Qur’an, taught its recitation, and used to copy out Qur’anic codices.
He also heard from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿUmayr, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbās, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Zuhrī, Abū al-Zinād, Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, ʿAbdullāh ibn Lahīʿah, and many others.
Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym recited the Qur’an to him.
It was also said that his clientage was actually to the Banū Makhzūm.
He received his Qur’anic reading directly from Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, and ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah.
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd said: “Al-Aʿraj used to copy Qur’anic codices.”