a martyr,” and he was reliable, erudite, a jurist, and a Sunnī—may Allah have mercy on him.

I say: He was one of the leading imams of Islam, and we possess no elevated chain for his reports except by written authorization.

119 – Aḥmad ibn Saʿd ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī Maryam al-Miṣrī * (D, S)
The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Jaʿfar al-Miṣrī, the client of Banū Jumah.
He narrated from: his uncle Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Asad ibn Mūsā, Abū al-Yamān, Ḥabīb the scribe of Mālik, and he received further training under Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Bāghandī, ʿAlī ibn Sirāj, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ʿAllān, Ibn Wahb al-Dīnawarī, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is no harm in him.” (1)
He died in 253 AH.

120 – al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār al-Qurashī al-Asadī al-Zubayrī ** (Q)
The eminent scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and genealogist, judge of Mecca and its leading authority, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī—