Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “My father wrote down hadith from him in Mecca in the year 215 AH, and when he was asked about him he replied, ‘He is reliable.’
Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī stated: “I attended his funeral when he was returning from the pilgrimage, at the opening of the year 216 AH.”
In that same year his son al-Ḥasan dated his death and said that he was seventy-four years old.
39 – Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Zubayr al-ʿAishī* (M, D)
An imam and hadith scholar, counted among the senior shaykhs of Basra.
He transmitted hadith from Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Muʿtamir, Ibn ʿUyaynah, and their contemporaries.
Those who narrated from him include Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Baqiyy ibn Makhlad, ʿAbdān, and Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī.
He died in 237 AH.
40 – Muḥammad ibn Abān ibn Wazīr, known as Ḥamdawayh** (Kh, 4)
The ḥāfiẓ, imam, and trustworthy authority Abū Bakr al-Balkhī, the mustamli; he was called Ḥamdawayh, and he served as Wakiʿ’s mustamli for a lengthy period—about a dozen years.
He narrated from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, Ibn Wahb, Ghundar, and Sufyān ibn