they also had two other brothers who never gained renown: Sharik and ʿUmayr.
Abu ʿAli narrated from Hisham al-Dastuwaʾi, Qurrah ibn Khalid, Ismaʿil ibn Muslim, Malik ibn Mighwal, Ibn Abi Dhib, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmar, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Zinad, and many others besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include Bundar, Ishaq al-Kawsaj, Abu Muhammad al-Darimi, Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli, ʿAli ibn Nasr al-Jahdami, his father, Sulayman ibn Sayf, Muhammad ibn Yunus al-Kudaymi, and a host of others.
We possess some of his narrations with very elevated chains of transmission in the Ghaylaniyyat (1) and the Qatiʿiyyat (2).
Abu Hatim al-Razi and others said, “There is no harm in him.” Al-Kudaymi said that he died in the year 209 AH.
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur and a group, by authorisation, informed us, saying: ʿUmar ibn Muhammad informed us; Hibat Allah ibn Muhammad informed us; Ibn Ghaylan informed us; Abu Bakr al-Shafiʿi informed us; Muhammad ibn Yunus narrated to us; Abu ʿAli al-Hanafi narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Zinad narrated to us, from his father, from al-Aʿraj, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: “He mentioned …”