Mahdī, along with a host of others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mājah in his Sunan, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda, ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Asīd, his nephew ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Zuhrī, his other nephew Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī—nicknamed ʿAbdūs—, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dārakī, and many others besides them.
He possessed thirty thousand hadith traced back to Ibn Mahdī.
Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith al-Iṣfahānī reported, on the authority of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, that he said:
“I never went to Ibn Mahdī on any day without finding the two blue-eyed brothers with him—meaning ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and ʿAbdullāh (1).”
Abū Shaykh remarked, “The singular narrations in Rustah’s collection are numerous.”
His nephew Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh said, “My uncle passed away in the year 250 AH.”
His brother:
88 – The Imām and ḥadith scholar Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar al-Zuhrī
He heard hadith from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar (Ghundar), Ibn Mahdī, Ḥammād ibn Masʿada, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī.
Abū Shaykh said, “He authored many works, was appointed as judge over al-Karkh, and died there.”