—al-Marwazī.

Sinān is a village belonging to the district of Marw.

He was born in 115 AH; thus he was older than Ibn al-Mubārak and, after the latter’s death, remained alive for some time.

He travelled in search of knowledge and heard ḥadīth from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, al-Aʿmash, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Khuthaym ibn ʿIrāk, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, and others of their tier.

Those who narrated from him include ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, Yaḥyā ibn Aktham, Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth, ʿAlī ibn Khushram, Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān, Maḥmūd ibn Ādam, and many others.

Abū Nuʿaym al-Malaʾī said, “He is more firmly grounded than ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak.”

Wakīʿ said, “Reliable, a man of the Sunnah; I know him well.”

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abbār reported: ʿAlī ibn Khushram narrated to us, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā narrated to us; he said:

“We once had a governor in Marw who was very forgetful. He said, ‘Buy me a slave-boy and name him in my presence so that I will not forget his name.’ Later he asked, ‘What have you named him?’

They replied, ‘Wāqid.’

He said, ‘Could you not give him a name I would never forget?’—or he said, ‘This is a name I shall never forget!’—

and then he called out, ‘Stand up, Farqad!’ ”

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth said: I heard al-Sinānī say:

“Seeking ḥadīth…"