153 – Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mūsā al-Isfarāyīnī*
The ḥāfiẓ, first-rate critic from Isfarāyīn, nicknamed Ḥayyawah.
He related ḥadith from Abū al-Naḍr, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Abū ʿĀṣim, Abū Mus-hir, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Abū ʿAwānah, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajāʾ, and a group besides.
The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAwānah used to take pride in him, saying, “Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā of ours and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā of yours (1),” meaning the Dhuhlī.
It is also said that Ḥayyawah was the nickname of his father Yaḥyā.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Isfarāyīnī died on the Day of Tarwiyah in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 259 AH, at a little over seventy years of age.
154 – Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad ibn Qumayr ibn Shuʿbah al-Marwazī** (Q)
The imām, godly scholar, traditionist, and firmly reliable—Abū Muḥammad, and it is also said Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—al-Marwazī, who settled in Baghdad.
He heard ḥadith from Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Sunayd ibn Dāwūd, Abū Nuʿaym, and their peers.