Sharik, Musʿab b. Sallam, and Yahya b. Yaman.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibrahim b. Dizil, Ibn Abi ʿAsim, Mutayyin, al-Hasan b. Sufyan, ʿAbdan al-Jawaliqi, and Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili.
Abu Dawud said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” (1)
Mutayyin remarked, “Reliable; he did not dye his hair.”
I say: the compilers did not record anything on his authority.
He died in Dhu al-Qaʿdah, in the year 234 AH.
62 – Mahmud b. Khidash al-Talqani * (T, Q)
The imam, hadith master, and trustworthy authority, Abu Muhammad al-Talqani, later of Baghdad.
He narrated from Hushaym, Ibn al-Mubarak, Fudayl b. ʿIyad, Sufyan b. ʿUyaynah, ʿAbbad b. al-ʿAwwam, Sayf b. Muhammad al-Thawri, and their peers; he transmitted copiously and with precision.
Among those who related from him are al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Nasaʾi—who compiled a work devoted to him—Baqi b. Makhlad, Yahya b. Saʿid, Muhammad b. Fayruz al-Anmati, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Mahamili, and others.