he heard ḥadīth from Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh and a number of teachers in Nishapur, and from Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, and several others in Kufa.
Those who reported from him include Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak al-Mustamlī, al-ʿAbbās ibn Ḥamzah, and others.
His standing was one of unquestioned honesty.
He died in 262 AH.
30 – al-Khushk, Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī *
The son of Razīn, a member of the Sulamī clan, from Nishapur.
He heard ḥadīth from Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Khuzaymah, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ, Ibn al-Akhram, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasnawayh, and others.
He died in 266 AH.
31 – Akhṭal ibn al-Ḥakam, Abū al-Qāsim al-Qurashī **
The musnid and long-lived scholar, Abū al-Qāsim al-Qurashī of Damascus.
He heard ḥadīth from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd and al-Walīd ibn Muslim.
Among those who transmitted from him are Abū ʿAwānah the ḥadīth master, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad—a teacher of Tamām al-Rāzī—and others.