20 – ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ, Abū Yāsir al-Taghlibī al-Astarābādhī *
A hadith master, reliable and authoritative; Abū Yāsir al-Taghlibī al-Astarābādhī was the author of the Great Musnad. He journeyed widely, collected hadith, and produced written works.
He reported from: Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAbdī, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Juʿfī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Hishām, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, and their contemporaries.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif al-Astarābādhī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn the littérateur, and a number of others.
Abū Saʿd al-Idrīsī ⦗1⦘ wrote his biography, saying: “He was a virtuous, devout shaykh, abundant in worship and asceticism, trustworthy in hadith. He set out on his travels at the age of twenty-eight and died, according to the sound view, in 267 AH. His grave is visited—may Allah have mercy on him.”
21 – Ibn al-Surmārī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq **
The imam, reliable authority, Abū Ṣafwān Isḥāq, son of the valiant, steadfast warrior, a knight