Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, both of them from Hushaym.
Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it with a lower chain: from al-Fallās, from Khālid, from Shuʿbah, from Yaʿlā.
Those who died in that same year—252 AH—include: Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, Bundār, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Jawwāz (1), ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Tannūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manjūf, the caliph al-Mustaʿīn—who was killed—Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl, the amir Ashnās, and many others.
- Abū Mūsā al-ʿAnazī Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā ibn ʿUbayd (ʿ)
Ibn Qays ibn Dīnār—the imām, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable authority; Abū Mūsā al-ʿAnazī, the Basran, who suffered from paralysis.
He was born, together with Bundār, in the year Ḥammād ibn Salamah passed away (2).
He reported from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿAmī, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Ibn Idrīs, Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū Muʿāwiyah, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ghundar, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, and many others.
He would even descend in transmission to ʿAffān and Abū al-Walīd—indeed, he would go down to