54 – Surayj ibn Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm al-Marwazī* (cited by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and al-Nasāʾī)
The Imām, exemplar, and ḥadith master, Abū al-Ḥārith al-Marwazī, who later settled in Baghdad.
He transmitted from Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād, Yūsuf ibn al-Mājishūn, Ismāʿīl ibn Mujālid, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Muʾaddib, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Marwān ibn Shujāʿ, and their peers, narrating prolifically.
Among those who reported from him were Muslim; al-Bukhārī—though only through an intermediary—al-Nasāʾī, Baqiyy ibn Makhlad, Abū Yaḥyā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ṣāʿiqah, Abū Zurʿah, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, and many others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, when asked about him, said, “A man of goodness.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn remarked, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”
Ṣāliḥ Jazrah described him as “highly trustworthy and devout.”
Abū Ḥātim deemed him “truthful.”
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad reported: I heard Surayj ibn Yūnus say, “I saw the Lord of Majesty in a dream. He said to me, ‘Ask for what you need.’ I replied: ‘Raḥmān sar-basar’—that is, head to head.”