namely, a version whose isnād is more reliable than that of ʿUmar ibn Ḥabīb al-ʿAdawī. He died in 202 AH. A number of his higher-level transmissions have reached me, and he is fair.
157 – ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Razīn al-Sulamī * (M, D)
The eminent imam, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sulamī of Nishapur, the brother of Jaʿfar and Mubashshir.
He heard from Ibn Isḥāq, Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn, al-Thawrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, and a group of others.
Among those who transmitted from him are Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Ayyūb ibn al-Ḥasan, Sahl ibn ʿAmmār, and others.
Sahl ibn ʿAmmār said, “No one in Khurāsān was more distinguished than he.”
He passed away in 203 AH ⦗1⦘.
158 – Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Abū Masʿūd al-Ḥimyārī ** (D, T, Q)
The ḥadīth scholar of Ramla, Abū Masʿūd al-Ḥimyārī, al-Saybānī ⦗2⦘, also known as al-Ramlī.