- Sulayman ibn Sayf ibn Yahya ibn Dirham al-Harrani * (S) (1)
The eminent ḥāfiẓ, Abū Dāwūd al-Harrani, a client of the Tay tribe and the foremost ḥadith scholar of Harran.
He heard ḥadith from Yazid ibn Harun, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Saʿid ibn ʿAmir, Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Sahmi, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Aʿyan, Wahb ibn Jarir, Muḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarriʿ, Yaʿqub ibn Ibrahim ibn Saʿd, and others of their rank.
He devoted himself to the noble science, excelled in it, and mastered it.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Nasaʾi—who narrated from him abundantly and declared him ‘reliable’—Abu ʿArubah, Abu ʿAwanah, Makhul al-Bayruti, Abu Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdi, Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyani, Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Saʿid al-Harrani, Ahmad ibn ʿAmr al-Ramli, Hashim ibn Ahmad ibn Masrur, his grandson Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman, and several others.
Ibn ʿUqdah said: He died in Shaʿban, 272 AH.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muhammad informed us in person; ʿAli ibn al-Musallam informed us; Abu Naṣr ibn Ṭalab informed us; Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ibn Jumayʿ informed us; Hashim ibn Ahmad Abū ʾl-Walid al-Naṣibi narrated to us; Sulayman ibn Sayf narrated to us; Abu ʿAttab Sahl ibn Ḥammad narrated to us; ʿAzrah ibn Thabit narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dinar, who said: Ibn ʿAbbas narrated to me:
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