72 – Mūsā ibn Aʿyan al-Ḥarrānī — (Kh, M, D, S, Q ⦗1⦘)
The Imām, the authoritative ḥujjah, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥarrānī.
He narrated from: ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib; Layth; ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī; al-Aʿmash; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl; Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf; Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād; Maʿmar; and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Samāʿah; Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb; ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Dāwūd; Saʿīd ibn Ḥafṣ al-Nufaylī; his kinsman Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā; and others.
Abū Ḥātim and other critics declared him reliable.
He died in 177 AH.
73 – As for al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah ibn Abī Umayyah — (D, T, Q)
Abū Mālik, a client of Quraysh from Baṣrah, the brother of Mubārak ibn Faḍālah; he was slightly earlier than the subject of the previous entry.
He narrated from: Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī; Thābit al-Būnānī; Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd; ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd; and a number of others.