Al-Darāwardī passed away in 187 AH, in Medina.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿAmmi al-Basrī
A traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, and firmly reliable authority—Abū ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, al-ʿAmmi, from Basra.
He was born sometime after 100 AH.
He transmitted ḥadith from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Maṭar al-Warrāq, and others.
Among those who narrated from him were Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, ʿAmr al-Fallās, Bundār, Ibn al-Muthannā, Ziyād ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥassānī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, and many more.
ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī said, “He was a ḥāfiẓ.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and others declared, “He was trustworthy.”
ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī recounted: “I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī say, on the day ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAmmi died, ‘In the last thirty years no shaykh of equal stature has died among you.’ ”
I add: some of his higher-level isnāds reach us in the Book of the Resurrection (1).
He died in 187 AH.