of Egypt, and the father of the scholars Abū ʿUlāthah Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr and Abū Khaythamah ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām, al-Naḍr ibn ʿArabī, Abū ʿAqīl Yaḥyā ibn al-Mutawakkil, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, Abū al-Malīḥ, Zuhayr, Sharīk, Bakr ibn Muḍar, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Abī Masāwir al-Jarrār, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Rammādī, Sammūyah, Abū al-Zinbaʿ Rawḥ ibn al-Faraj, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Faraj al-Ghazzī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥumayd al-ʿUkkī, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrāzādh, his two sons, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿUkbarī, and many others.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said: “He was an Egyptian, trustworthy and firmly established.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable.” (1)
Al-Bukhārī (2) and others stated that he died in Egypt in the year 229 AH.
131 – ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb, Abū Muḥammad al-Dhuhlī *
The eminent scholar, grammarian, and historian, Abū Muḥammad al-Dhuhlī,