He heard from Ismaʿil ibn ʿUlayyah and Ishaq al-Azraq, and he was the last person to relate from the two of them.
He also heard from Abu Badr al-Sakuni, ʿAli ibn ʿAsim, Yazid ibn Harun, and a group of others.
Those who narrated from him include ʿUthman ibn Ahmad ibn al-Sammak, Ahmad ibn ʿUthman al-Adami, ʿUmar ibn al-Hasan al-Ushnani, Abu Bakr al-Shafiʿi, and others besides them.
Al-Daraqutni ruled him weak, and al-Barqani said, “Extremely weak.”
I say: His transmission appears at the very highest level in al-Ghaylāniyyāt (1).
He died in Dhu al-Qaʿdah, 278 AH.
81 – Ibn Munib al-Marwazi, Abu al-Dardaʾ ʿAbd al-ʿAziz * (Q (2))
The imam, ḥafiẓ, and hadith scholar of Marw: Abu al-Dardaʾ ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Munib ibn Salam al-Marwazi.
He narrated from ʿUbayd Allah ibn Musa; ʿUthman ibn al-Haytham, the muezzin; Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman, the Qur’an-reciter; ʿAli ibn al-Husayn ibn Waqid; ʿAbdan ibn ʿUthman; Asbagh ibn al-Faraj; Yahya ibn Bukayr; and many others.
Transmitters from him include al-Nasa’i—in al-Yawm wa-l-Laylah—and Ibn Majah, according to what Ibn