ʿUmar said: “The three things I fear for you most are: a hypocrite who recites the Qur’an faultlessly—never slipping on a single wāw or alif—then argues with the people, pretending to be more knowledgeable than they are, in order to turn them away from guidance; the misstep of a scholar; and leaders who lead astray.
In that same year—that is, 239 AH—there died: Dāwūd ibn Rushayd; Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ; ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah; Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Balkhī the jurist; Muḥammad ibn Mihrān al-Rāzī, the camel driver; Wahb ibn Baqiyyah; Yaḥyā ibn Mūsā Khatt; Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān al-Marwazī; Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Marwazī; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Abān; and al-Ṣalt ibn Masʿūd al-Jahdarī.
117 – al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr
Al-Ghazzī—the devout worshipper and ascetic.
He transmitted from ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and others.
Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī, and a number of others.
Abū Zurʿah said, “I never saw anyone in Egypt more upright than he. Eighteen days would pass without his eating or drinking.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ayyūb said, “Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us—he used to take only two meals during the entire month of Ramadan.”
I say: He lived on until about 240 AH, and he is one of the teachers cited in Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ.