, al-Karajī (1), ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, and others.

Two transcripts of his hadiths have reached us; the reports they contain recur frequently.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “reliable, acceptable” (2).

I add: he died in 270 AH, when he was in his nineties.

163 – Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ ibn al-Thaljī al-Baghdādī *

The jurist, one of the eminent authorities, Abū ʿAbd Allah, the Baghdadi Ḥanafī, better known as Ibn al-Thaljī.

He heard hadith from Ibn ʿUlayyah, Wakīʿ, Abū Usāmah, and others of their caliber.

He recited the Quran with al-Yazīdī (3), studied the variant readings under Yaḥyā ibn Ādam (4), and learned jurisprudence from al-Ḥasan ibn Ziyād (5), in all of which he excelled.

He was an ocean of knowledge.

Among those who narrated from him are Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, his grandson, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Thābit, and several others.