Al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Bukayr, the ḥāfiẓ, said, “He is weak.” (1)
I (the author) add: he passed away sometime before 270 AH.
24 – Abū al-Layth ʿAbd Allāh ibn Surayj al-Bukhārī
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and leading transmitter of his age, Abū al-Layth ʿAbd Allāh ibn Surayj ibn Ḥujr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, al-Shaybānī, al-Bukhārī, father of Abū ʿUbaydah al-Bukhārī.
He heard ḥadith from: ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān, Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ the jurist, Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Bīkandī (2), Wahb ibn Zamʿah, Ḥibbān ibn Mūsā, and their peers; yet I can scarcely verify this list.
Sahl ibn Bishr said: I heard Abū al-Layth say, “I have memorized ten thousand hadiths without repetition.” (3)
Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Marwazī reported: “I saw the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Layth sitting with ʿAbdān on his bed, and I saw ʿAbdān—meaning ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān—treat him with great respect.” Ghunjar narrated his biography in these terms (4) but did not record the year of his death, may Allah have mercy on him.
25 – Aḥmad ibn ʿIṣām, Abū Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī, their client
The scholar, the truthful narrator, the muḥaddith, Abū Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī, their client, from Isfahan,