123 – Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān ibn Ṭarḫān al-Taymī (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and exemplar; Abū Muḥammad, the son of the Imām Abū al-Muʿtamir al-Taymī of Basra. He was from the client-tribe (mawālī) of Banū Murrah and came to be linked to the clan of Taym because he and his father had settled among them.
He transmitted ḥadith from his father, from Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Ayyūb, Ḥumayd, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār al-Baṣrī the steward, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Fuḍayl ibn Maysarah, Isḥāq ibn Suwayd, Ashʿath ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Muḥammad al-ʿAjamī, Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿlā al-Ṭāʾifī, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, and many others.
So eager was he that he even went so far as to relate narrations from his own pupil ʿAbd al-Razzaq.
He ranked among the leading scholars.
Among those who reported from him are: Ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, al-Qaʿnabī, al-Aṣmaʿī, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, Musaddad, Aḥmad, Isḥāq, ʿAlī, Ibn Abī Shaybah, Umayyah ibn Bisṭām, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī, ʿAmr al-Fallās, Ziyād al-Ḥassānī, Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣanʿānī, Hārūn ibn Isḥāq, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿArabī, and Yaʿqūb.