distressed, so I lay down to sleep and saw the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “Why do I see you so troubled?”
I replied, “O Messenger of Allah, I asked ʿAbd al-Razzāq to read to me, but he rebuked me.”
He said, “If you want to record knowledge purely for Allah’s sake, then write from al-Qaʿnabī, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Sadūsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ al-Ghudānī, and Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī.”
When morning came I related the dream. ʿAbd al-Razzāq said, “You complained about me to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? Bring your notebook so I can read to you.”
I said, “No, by Allah.” I then went to those men and wrote from them.
71 – ʿAbdān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Jabalah al-Azdī * (Kh)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and hadith scholar of Marw; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Jabalah ibn Abī Rawwād Maymūn—or Ayman—al-Azdī, al-ʿAtakī, their client, al-Marwazī; the brother of the traditionist ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Shadhān. Both were grandsons of the Meccan shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād (1).
He was born in the early 140s AH.
He heard a single report from Shuʿbah, and a large number from his father on the authority of Shuʿbah. He also studied with Abū Ḥamzah Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Sukkarī, Mālik ibn Anas, ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, and many others across Khurasan, Iraq, and the Hijaz.