He heard from: Adam ibn Abi Iyas, Saʿid ibn Abi Maryam, Abu Mushir al-Dimashqi, Rawwad ibn al-Jarrah, Yahya ibn Saʿid, Yazid ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, Bakkar ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Sirini (1), ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf, al-Tabudhaki, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Tahawi—who cited him extensively—, Ibn Saʿid, Ibn Jawsa, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asam, Abu al-Fawaris ibn al-Sindi, and many others.
Abu Ahmad al-Hakim said: “I heard Ibn Jawsa say, ‘I compared narrations with Abu Ishaq al-Barallusi, and he was one of the vessels of hadith.’”
Ibn Yunus remarked: “He was among the skilled, reliable, and firmly established memorisers.”
Birthplace: Sur. Place of death: Egypt.
Al-Tahawi stated: “He died in Shaʿban, 270 AH.”
238 – Muhammad ibn ʿAwf ibn Sufyan al-Taʾi * (D)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous scholar, the hadith expert of Hims: Abu Jaʿfar al-Taʾi, al-Himsi.
He heard from: ʿUbayd Allah ibn Musa, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firyabi, Abu al-Mughira al-Khawlani, Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Wahbi, and ʿAbd al-Salam ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid