200 – ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Nuʿmān *
A shaykh from Baghdad, by profession a cloth-seller.
He narrated from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭahmān, Shuʿbah, and a group of others.
Those who reported from him include ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Tamṭām, Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib, and others.
Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him reliable, while al-Dāraqutnī said, “He is not strong.”
He died in 216 AH.

201 – Qurād ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazwān al-Khuzaʿī ** (Bukhari, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Tirmidhī)
The ḥāfiẓ, the imām, the trustworthy (ṣadūq): Abū Nūḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazwān al-Khuzaʿī—some say al-Ḍabbī—their freedman, nicknamed “Qurād,” a resident of Baghdad. He was among the scholars of hadith, though some of his reports are rejected.
He narrated from ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī, Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Shuʿbah, and their peers.
Among those who transmitted from him are Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn