and Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī, the court singer; Surayj ibn Yūnus; the deputy of Baghdad, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣʿab; Shaybān ibn Farrūkh; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah; ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Samīn; Muʿallā ibn Mahdī; Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim; and Shujāʿ ibn Makhlad.
111 – Ibn Numayr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr al-Hamdānī * (ʿ)
The ḥāfiẓ, decisive authority, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hamdānī, later known as al-Khārifī, their client, from Kūfa.
He was born some time in the 160s AH, making him a contemporary of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī.
He related ḥadith from his father, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr; al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād; ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanafisī and his brothers; Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī; Ibn Idrīs; Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar; Abū Muʿāwiya; Ibn Fuḍayl; Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; Ibn ʿUlayyah; Wakīʿ; Ḥakkām ibn Salm; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; al-Muḥāribī; Muḥammad ibn Bishr; Abū ʿĀṣim; Abū Usāmah; and many others.
Al-Bukhārī and Muslim included his narrations in their two Ṣaḥīḥs, as did Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah—while the remaining compilers of the Six Books recorded him only through an intermediary. Others who transmitted from him were Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, and Abū—