among the shaykhs he transmitted from were Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, and Ibn Lahiʿah.

Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Ayyūb ibn al-Ḥasan, Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī, and many others, the last of whom was al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān.

His standing is one of truthfulness; he belongs to the same tier as the preceding narrator.

157 – Saʿduwayh Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍabbī* (ʿ)

The ḥāfiẓ, the firmly grounded scholar, the Imām, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḍabbī, originally from Wāsiṭ, a cloth-merchant, known by the sobriquet “Saʿduwayh.”

He settled in Baghdad and spread knowledge there.

He was born in the 120s AH.

He performed the pilgrimage sometime after 150 AH and, while in Mecca, met Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, the judge of al-Andalus.

He heard ḥadīth from Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Azhar ibn Sinān, Sulaymān ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī, Manṣūr ibn Abī al-Aswad, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Salamah, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Hushaym, ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī ⦗1⦘, Abū Dāwūd, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, and Hilāl.