Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīnawarī of Baghdad, who said: My uncle Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, in the year 539 AH, related to us; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us—
And Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Muḥammad ibn Biṭṭīkh, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Aḥmad, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān also told us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm the preacher related to us—
And Khadījah bint al-Riḍā informed us; al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān conveyed to us; both of them said: Fakhr al-Nisāʾ Shuhda bint Aḥmad informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṭalḥa told us. He, together with ʿĀṣim, said: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī reported to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl al-Maḥāmilī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Muslim narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām narrated to us; Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾah narrated to us, from Simāk, from Jābir ibn Samurah, who said:
“There was a slight slenderness in the shanks of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—he never laughed except with a smile, and whenever you looked at him you would say, ‘His eyes are kohl-lined,’ though he had applied no kohl.”
This is a singular (gharīb) ḥadith.

149 – al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn Baḥr*
The erudite polymath, master of many disciplines, Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn Baḥr ibn Maḥbūb al-Baṣrī, the Muʿtazilite and prolific author.
He studied under al-Naẓẓām;
he transmitted from Abū Yūsuf the judge and Thumāmah ibn Ashras;
transmissions from him were taken by Abū al-ʿAynāʾ and Yamūt ibn al-Muzarraʿ—his sister’s son, himself one of the brilliant minds.