ibn Mazīd, al-ʿUdhri, al-Bayruti.
Beirut is a city on the sea along the Syrian coast near Damascus. It remained an Islamic land from the time of the early conquests until the Franks captured it; it then served as their stronghold until Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil retook it in 690 AH, in the same campaign in which he seized Acre. In Beirut al-Awzaʿi died, as did his pupil al-Walid ibn Mazid and this man’s son.
He was born in 169 AH, so it is certain that he lived for more than one hundred years.
He heard hadith from his father—under whom he also studied jurisprudence—and from Muhammad ibn Shuʿayb ibn Shabur, ʿUqbah ibn ʿAlqamah al-Bayruti, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firyabi, Abu Mushir al-Dimashqi, ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn Bakkar, and a number of others.
He was a Qur’an reciter, highly proficient in the reading of Ibn ʿAmir, having learned it directly from his father.
Those who transmitted from him include Abu Dawud and al-Nasa’i in their two books, the two Abu Zurʿahs, Ibn Abi Dawud, Ibn Jawsa, Makḥul al-Bayruti, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim, Abu ʿAli al-Haṣaʾiri, Khaythamah ibn Sulayman, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Aṣamm, and many others. Ibn ʿAsakir named forty of them.
Abu Hatim said, “Reliable.” (1)
Al-Nasa’i said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” (2)