129 – As for the younger scholar, Abū Naṣr Fath ibn Saʿīd al-Mawṣilī,* he was a peer of Bishr al-Ḥāfī.
130 – Ibn Zabr ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Rabaʿī ** (Kh, 4)
The Imām, hadith authority, and principal figure of Damascus: Abū Zabr ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr al-Rabaʿī, the Damascene.
He narrated from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Makḥūl, Busr ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir the Qurʾān-reciter, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmari, Abū Salām Mamṭūr, al-Zuhrī, Bilāl ibn Saʿd, and others.
Those who reported from him include his son Ibrāhīm, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ibn Shābūr, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb, Shababa, Abū Mushir, Marwān ibn Muḥammad, ʿAmr ibn Abī Salama, Abū al-Mughīra al-Khawlānī, and many others.
Yahya ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy.
Duḥaym said: “He was reliable, one of the nobles of the city.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remarked: “His hadith is fairly sound.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “He was trustworthy—if Allah wills.”