al-Madani, later a resident of Baghdad. He transmitted hadith from his father and from others, and I have known him only as a truthful narrator. (1) Al-Tirmidhi narrated directly from him, and thereafter related a report through another man who had heard from him. He died in 247 AH at the age of ninety-nine.

His grandfather was the renowned hadith master and author of al-Maghāzī, Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—mentioned earlier.

234 – Aḥmad ibn Sayyār ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwazī, the great Imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative scholar—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī, the jurist and leading scholar of Marw.

He heard hadith from ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Dimashqī, and many of their contemporaries in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Khurasan. He collected hadith and authored works.

Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī, and al-Bukhārī in writings other than the Ṣaḥīḥ, as well as Muḥammad ibn