and others of their rank.

Among those who narrated from him were Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and many others besides them.

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “He is reliable.”

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī stated: “He received the Qurʾānic reading by direct presentation (ʿarḍan) (1) from ʿĀʾidh ibn Abī ʿĀʾidh, a companion of Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, and he heard the variant readings from Khalaf ibn Hishām and Sulaymān al-Hāshimī.”

Those who learned the recitation from him included Ibn Mujāhid and a number of others.

He was counted among the foremost authorities on Arabic, thoroughly versed in the language.

I say: He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 277 AH, at the age of eighty-nine.

His ḥadiths are found with a high chain of transmission in the collection known as al-Ghaylāniyyāt.

98 – Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Yazīd, Abū Bakr al-Tamīmī *

The ḥāfiẓ, scholar, and indefatigable traveller Abū Bakr al-Tamīmī al-Ṭarsūsī, a man of the frontier, later settled in Balkh.

He transmitted ḥadith from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū al-Yamān, ʿAffān, and others of their echelon.