9 – Aḥmad ibn Janāb ibn al-Mughīrah al-Maṣīṣī* (M, D)
The imām, the trustworthy authority, Abū al-Walīd al-Maṣīṣī (1).
He received ḥadīths from ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, al-Ḥakam ibn Ẓuḥayr, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad al-Abbār, Abū Yaʿlā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, and Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī.
Among the senior scholars who transmitted from him were Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī.
He was especially sound in his transmission from ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus.
Ṣāliḥ Jazara said, “He is truthful.”
Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim stated that he died in the year 230 AH.
It is said that he was originally from Baghdad.
10 – Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād, Abū ʿUthmān al-Baṣrī**
The shaykh, ḥadīth master, long-lived centenarian, and reliable authority; Abū ʿUthmān al-Baṣrī, the money-changer.
He related from Faḍḍāl ibn Jubayr (2) — a companion of Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī — and from al-Rabīʿ.