and he was a man given to worship, long night-prayer, and constant Qur’an recitation. He died while in prostration. He composed the book Al-Manāsik in a little over sixty fascicles, yet he vacillated on the issue of the Qur’an (1) and spoke disparagingly of the leading scholars. This is not the place to expand on his story. He lived eighty-five years and died in 266 AH.
164 – al-Sūsi, Abū Shuʿayb Ṣāliḥ ibn Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allah *
The imam, master-reciter and hadith transmitter, the shaykh of al-Raqqah: Abū Shuʿayb Ṣāliḥ ibn Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Jārūd ibn Masraḥ, al-Rustabī, al-Sūsi, al-Raqqī.
He was born a little after 170 AH.
He perfected his Qur’an recitation under Yaḥyā al-Yazīdī and mastered with him the reading of Abū ʿAmr.
He heard hadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad, and a number of others.
Several people recited to him, among them: Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn Jarīr, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū ʿUthmān al-Naḥwī, and Abū al-Ḥārith Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Raqqī.
Those who received the variant readings from him include Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Khurāsānī, and others.