103 – Muḥammad ibn Kathīr ibn Marwān al-Fihri *
A shaykh from greater Syria, weak in ḥadith, who later settled in Baghdad.

He narrated from Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, al-Awzāʿī, and al-Layth.

Those who transmitted from him include Ḥāmid ibn Shuʿayb, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī.

Ibn Maʿīn said, “He was not reliable.”

Ibn ʿAdī remarked, “He reported fabrications.”

Al-Azdī declared him “abandoned” (1).

I (al-Dhahabī) add: He died shortly after 220 AH.

104 – al-ʿAwqī: Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Bāhilī ** (cited by al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Bāhilī, from Basra, known as al-ʿAwqī.

Al-ʿAwqa is the clan among whom he settled; they are a branch of al-Azd (2).

He narrated from Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Fulayḥ ibn