182 – Bahr ibn Naṣr ibn Sābiq, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khawlānī*
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and reliable authority; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khawlānī, their client, an Egyptian.
He transmitted ḥadith from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Bishr ibn Bakr, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī, Ashhab ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, Abū ʿAwānah, Ibn Jawṣā, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Zanbarī, Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-Zubayrī al-ʿAkarī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bahnasī al-ʿAṭṭār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shuʿayb, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Asīd al-Aṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah al-Ḥimṣī al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shāhīn, Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl al-Naysābūrī, Abū al-Fawāris ibn al-Sindī, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī also cited him in his book collecting Mālik’s aḥādīth, though through an intermediary; he related them from “Khayyāṭ al-Sunnah” Zakariyyā, who in turn narrated from al-Khawlānī.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim and others declared him reliable (1).
He died in Shaʿbān of the year 267 AH.
Al-Ṭaḥāwī said: his birth