216 – Ibn al-Bustanban, al-Hasan ibn Saʿīd al-Fārisī (1)
He is also reported as al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisī; later he settled in Baghdad. A cloth-merchant by trade, he was a relative of Saʿdān ibn Naṣr.
He heard ḥadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Muʿammar ibn Sulaymān, and Abū Badr.
Those who narrated from him include the judge al-Maḥāmilī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Ibn Makhlad, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Adamī.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “He is ṣadūq (reliable). We went to visit him but did not find him.” (2)
Ibn Makhlad stated, “He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 263 AH.” His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī.
217 – Muslim Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim al-Qushayrī
He is the great Imām, the master ḥāfiẓ, the meticulous critic, the conclusive authority, truthful—Abū al-Ḥusayn Muslim
(1) He is mentioned in Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi’s Tawdih al-Mushtabih, fol. 2/65/2, where the nisba is vocalised as follows: a ba with a damma, a sin in sukun, a tha with a fatha, a silent nun, a ba with a fatha, then an alif followed by a nun. The word is of Persian origin and designates the guard of an orchard or vineyard. See also: al-Samani, al-Ansab 2/206; Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab 1/150-151. Additional references: Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 3/16; al-Khattib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad 7/324; Ibn Nasir al-Din, Tawdih al-Mushtabih 2/65/2.
(2) Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 3/16; al-Khattib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad 7/324.
(* *) Principal sources: al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 8/182-183; Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist p. 286; Tarikh Baghdad 13/100, 104; Ibn Abi Ya‘la, Tabaqat al-Hanabila 1/337, 339; al-Samani, al-Ansab ms. fol. 453b; Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab 3/38; Ibn al-Athir, Jamiʿ al-Usul 1/187; al-Nawawi, Tahrib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, pt. 2, sect. 1, pp. 89, 92; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan 5/194, 196; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal nos. 1323-1324; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/37/1; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 2/588, 590; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 2/23; Ibn Kathir, Tarikh Ibn Kathir 11/33, 35; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam 5/32; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 10/126, 128; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira 3/33; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz p. 260; Ibn Abd al-Hadi, Khilasat Tadhhib al-Kamal p. 375; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/144-145.