256 – Sahl ibn Zanjalah, Abū ʿAmr al-Rāzī * (Q)
He is Sahl ibn Abī Sahl, a ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) and eminent imam, Abū ʿAmr al-Rāzī, the tailor ⦗1⦘, nicknamed al-Ashtar.
He was born in the early 160s AH.
He travelled in pursuit of hadith and began writing it down in the early 180s AH.
He transmitted from: Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Wakīʿ, Ibn Numayr, and their peers.
Among those who narrated from him are: Ibn Mājah—frequently—Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Abū Zurʿah, Ibn al-Junayd, Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥaddād, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Bashīr al-Rāzī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Yūsuf ibn ʿĀṣim al-Rāzī, and many others.
He taught in Baghdad after 230 AH; he collected, authored, held scholarly discussions with the ḥuffāẓ, and produced the Musnad al-Kabīr.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” ⦗2⦘