202 – al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Walid, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī * (s)
He was an Imām, a decisive authority, and the foremost shaykh of Khurasan—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, a client of Quraysh, originally from Nishapur.
He was born sometime after 130 AH—though some say a little before that.
He heard hadith from Ibn Jurayj, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, ʿĪsā ibn Ṭahmān, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ghasil, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, Mālik ibn Anas, Mālik ibn Mighwal, and many of their contemporaries in the Hijaz, Iraq, Khurasan, and Syria.
He gathered and compiled hadith, authored works, and spent large sums of money on the people of hadith.
Among those who transmitted from him were Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ, Ḥumayd ibn Zanjawayh, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Abū Aḥmad al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, al-Dhuhli, and many others.
Al-Ḥākim mentioned him, saying: “Abū ʿAbd Allāh the jurist, the trustworthy one, the shaykh of our land in his time; he was among the most generous of people, the most scrupulous, and the most proficient in Qurʾān recitation.”
He had recited the Qurʾān to al-Kisāʾī and to ʿĪsā ibn Ṭahmān.
Every three years he would take part in a military expedition, and every five years he would perform the ḥajj. (1)