Ismāʿīl al-Minqarī, their freedman, a Basran, better known as at-Tabūdhakī.
He was born during the opening years of the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr.
He related ḥadiths from: Aʿyan al-Khwārizmī—one of the younger Successors—Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; from Shuʿbah he has a single report; Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ; Ḥammād ibn Salamah; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl; Hammām ibn Yaḥyā; Mubārak ibn Faḍālah; Abū Hilāl; Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī; Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Nabrās; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim; Mahdī ibn Maymūn; Wuhaib; Ibn al-Mubārak; and from Ḥammād ibn Zayd another single report—along with many others.
He was one of the oceans of learning; his first audition took place in 160 AH.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī and Abū Dāwūd—while the others transmitted only through an intermediary—al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Khallāl, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan at-Tirmidhī, Abū Zurʿah, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzīl, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamṭām, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿUkbarī, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn aḍ-Ḍurays, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Asfāṭī, his grandson the imam Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Makkī, and many others besides.
ʿAbbās reported on the authority of Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, who said:
“I never sat with a teacher but that he either stood in awe of me or acknowledged my rank—save this snaggle-toothed Tabūdhakī. I counted for Ibn Maʿīn the material we had written down from him: thirty-five thousand ḥadiths.” (1)