the transmissions of al-Awzaʿi and Shuʿbah together, both on the authority of ʿAbdah; al-Nasaʾi also cited it in his Qurʾanic commentary. (1)
Bundar narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Rahman narrated to us; from Jabir ibn Yazid al-ʿIjli; from Yazid ibn Abi Sulayman; from Zir—that Ubayy related it to him, though he did not name him, but merely said: “He who never lied to me informed me.”
173 – al-Ruhawi, Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn ʿAbd al-Malik * (S)
An eminent imam, ḥadith memorizer, and critic—Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ruhawi, the foremost traditionist of al-Jazirah.
He heard from: Zayd ibn al-Hubab; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn; Yahya ibn Adam; Yazid ibn Harun; Abu Dawud al-Ḥafari; ʿUthman ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Harrani; Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd; Husayn ibn ʿAli al-Juʿfi; ʿUbayd Allah ibn Musa; Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd; Abu Nuʿaym; ʿAbd ibn Jaʿfar al-Raqqi; and a great many others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Nasaʾi—extensively—Abu ʿArubah, Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman Makḥul al-Bayruti, and others. He also granted a licence to ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim.
Al-Nasaʾi said of him: “Trustworthy, reliable, a man of ḥadith.”
I say: He passed away in the year 261 AH, and among the earliest of his teachers was Miskin ibn Bakr.