It is also said that Saʿduwayh lived to the age of one hundred.
158 – Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Nashīṭī*
A Basran shaykh, one of the contemporaries of the man whose biography has just been recorded. (1)
He narrated from: Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Salm ibn Zarīr, and several others.
Transmitters from him include: Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Makkī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Asfāṭī, and a number of others.
Abū Ḥātim and others said, “He is not strong.” (2)
Abū Ḥātim also remarked, “There is some criticism regarding him.” (3)
159 – Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī, Abū Naṣr ibn Saʿīd**
The ascetic, the saint, the devotee: Abū Naṣr Fatḥ ibn Saʿīd al-Mawṣilī.
We have already mentioned “the senior Fatḥ” (4), who was a contemporary of Ibrāhīm ibn Adham; both of them were among the great masters.