Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Bayyiʿ said, “Khūsh is one of the villages of Isfarāyin.” (1)

Abū ʿAwānah the ḥāfiẓ remarked, “They wrote down his narrations in Baghdad when he was twenty-five years old.” (2)

I say: He died shortly after the year 230 AH—or perhaps in that very year—and I have recorded him here because of the antiquity of his death.

237 – Asbagh ibn al-Faraj ibn Saʿīd ibn Nāfiʿ al-Umawī (Kh, T, S)

The shaykh, the great imām, the mufti of the Egyptian lands and their foremost scholar: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Umawī, their client, Egyptian, adherent of the Mālikī school.

Birth: sometime after 150 AH.

He began seeking knowledge when he was already a mature youth, and therefore missed both Mālik and al-Layth.

He transmitted from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī; Usāmah ibn Zayd ibn Aslam and his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd; Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus al-Sabīʿī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb; and Ibn al-Qāsim—under the last two he studied jurisprudence and amassed an abundant store of knowledge.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tirmidhī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Jīzī, Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī, and Abū al-Dardāʾ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Munīb.