58 – Muʿammar ibn Sulaymān al-Nakhaʿī al-Raqqī * (T, S, Q)
The Imām and exemplar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Nakhaʿī of ar-Raqqah.
He narrated from Khuṣayf, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Zayd ibn Ḥibbān al-Raqqī, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿUbayd, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, and many more—the last of them to die was Saʿdān ibn Naṣr.
Yahyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable.
Imām Aḥmad mentioned him and spoke of his merit and the reverence he inspired.
Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim said, “He was among the best people I have ever seen.”
I (the author) add: I possess several high-chain reports from him.
He passed away in Shaʿbān of the year 191 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.
59 – Abū Tumaylah Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Marwazī ** (ʿ)
A ḥāfiẓ.
He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah, and Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid.