ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Kātib, Rūḥ ibn Ṣalāḥ ibn Sayābah—originally from Mosul and later an Egyptian—, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb, Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-ʿAwqī, Ṭalq ibn al-Samḥ, Bakr ibn Yūnus ibn Bukayr, and many others; the last of them to die was al-Qāsim ibn Hāniʾ ibn Nāfiʿ al-ʿAdawī, the blind man.
Al-Khaṭīb (1), in his book al-Sābiq wa-l-Lāḥiq, could find no other transmitter besides Saʿd ibn Yazīd al-Farrāʾ, a teacher of al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, who died in 230 AH.
He was declared reliable by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, al-ʿIjlī, and al-Nasāʾī.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: “He was a righteous man, exact in his narration—adding nothing and omitting nothing. His hadith are sound, and he was among the trustworthy narrators of Egypt.”
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yunus stated: “He was born in Ifriqiyah in 90 AH and died in Alexandria in 163 AH.”
The same year of death was also reported by Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Khalīfah, Abū ʿUbayd, and a number of others.
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He was born in 89 AH.”
It is further said that his term as governor of the Egyptian province lasted six years and two months.
As for his father:
154 – ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ ibn Qaṣīr ibn Qashīb ibn Yathiʿ * (Muslim; the Four)
A trustworthy scholar; his given name was ʿAlī, but…
(1) I.e., Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī.