Ḥātim ibn al-Layth said, “He died in the year 229 AH.”
19 – al-Murrī, Junādah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaḥyā*
A member of the Murr tribe, from Damascus, and the mufti of that city.
He studied under: Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Jarwal ibn Khanfal (1), ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Abī al-ʿIshrīn, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Baqiyyah, and several others.
Transmitters from him include: al-Bukhārī—in some of his compilations—Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Abū Ḥātim, al-Fasawī, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrāzādh, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, and many others.
Al-Bukhārī gave him the kunya Abū ʿAbd Allāh.
Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī also listed him among the muftis of Damascus.
Ibn Mākūlā said, “He has singular reports.”
I (the author) say: He died in 226 AH.
20 – Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Zayd al-Sāmī** (S)
The hadith scholar and ḥāfiẓ, Abū Isḥāq al-Sāmī, al-Nājī, from Basra.
He narrated from: Abān ibn Yazīd al-ʿAṭṭār, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and Murājim ibn —.