and al-Bazzār, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Saqaṭī, al-Muṭayyin, and others besides them.
The last person to relate from him was Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī.
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “He is reliable, a ḥadīth master, from Samarqand.”
Al-Nasāʾī remarked: “He is a Marwazī.”
Al-Khaṭīb added: “He lived in Baghdad and was trustworthy, firmly reliable, and an imam in the science of ḥadīth, in its preservation, and in expertise therein.⦗1⦘”
ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Ashqar related: “Rajāʾ ibn Murajjā reached us in Bukhārā on his way to al-Shāsh; we took ḥadīth from him, and he visited Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī, where the two of them reviewed narrations together.”
Al-Nasāʾī said: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad—meaning al-Khaffāf—told us, from Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, who said, ‘That was the year in which Rajāʾ died,’ meaning 249 AH.”
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj also dated his death to that same year and added that he passed away in Baghdad.
Al-Bukhārī likewise stated that he died in Baghdad, at the very beginning of Jumādā al-Ūlā in 249 AH.
Sunqur al-Ḥalabī informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAllāf informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī narrated to us; Ibn Qāniʿ narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Jābir narrated to us; Rajāʾ ibn Murajjā narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Salamah, from Muslim ibn Abī Maryam, from