in Basra: Muḥammad ibn Abān ibn ʿImrān al-Wāsiṭī—according to one report—; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Shāfiʿī; Maḥfūẓ ibn Abī Tawbah al-Baghdādī; Rajāʾ ibn Sindī of Isfarāyīn; Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, the muʾadhdhin of Damascus; Saʿīd ibn Ḥafṣ al-Nufaylī; Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān al-Juʿfī in Egypt; and Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥufrī of Ifriqiya.
36 – al-Burjulānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Shaykh (1) *
An eminent imam, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Shaykh al-Burjulānī, renowned for his compilations on heart-softening topics.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Mālik ibn Ḍaygham, Zayd ibn Ḥubāb, Azhar al-Sammān, Saʿīd al-Ḍubaʿī, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Abī al-Dunyā—who reported prolifically from him—Ibrāhīm ibn al-Junayd, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq, Abū Yaʿlā, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Wāsiṭī.
Abū Ḥātim said: “It is related that a man once asked Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal for some reports on renunciation (zuhd), and he replied, ‘You should consult Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn.’”
37 – Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān al-Rusāfī ** (M, D)
The traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable narrator, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī al-Rusāfī, a client of Banū Hāshim.