164 – Aḥmad ibn Abī Surayj, ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Rāzī (Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasā’ī)
The ḥadīth master and scholar, Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī.
He recited the Qur’an before al-Kisā’ī, and al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Rāzī in turn read to him.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Muʿāwiyah, Ibn ʿUlayyah, Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb, and Wakīʿ.
Narrators who transmitted from him include Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim—who said, “reliable”—al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasā’ī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, and many others. Al-Nasā’ī declared him “trustworthy.”
The author says: He died in one of the mid-240s AH (around 243 AH), at about eighty years of age.
165 – ʿAlī ibn Khushram ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwazī (Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasā’ī)
Son of ʿAṭā’ ibn Hilāl; the imam, ḥadīth master, and reliable narrator, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī, the nephew of Bishr al-Ḥāfī.
Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad ibn Ḥamduwayh reports that he heard him say, “I was born in 160 AH.”
He studied under ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sinānī, Abū Tumaylah, Wakīʿ, and others of their generation.