and Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, Aḥmad ibn Jawwās, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ḥisāb, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah, al-Haytham ibn Ayyūb al-Ṭalqānī, Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī al-ʿAsqalānī, and many others besides.
250 – al-Zahrānī, Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd * (B, M)
He was the imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the Qurʾān reciter, and the eminent ḥadīth scholar: Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Azdī, al-ʿAtakī, al-Zahrānī, al-Baṣrī—one of the reliable authorities.
He was born sometime in the early 140s AH.
He heard ḥadīth from: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Mālik ibn Anas, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym the reciter, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ, Shurayk the judge, and a large company besides.
He lived to an advanced age and, by the end of his life, was singular in his generation.
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī mentions him in “Ranks of the Reciters,” saying: “He composed a comprehensive work on variant readings; he heard two readings from Nāfiʿ, and also from Ḥafṣ al-Ghāḍirī and ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Tannūrī, along with a number of other teachers—yet he does not name anyone before whom he himself recited.”
Those who transmitted traditions from him include: al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Ibn Rāhwayh, al-Dhuhlī, Abū Zurʿah, and Idrīs ibn ʿAbd