and it was also said that he was known as ʿUbayd al-Kishwarī al-Sanʿānī.
He narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ghassān, Bakr ibn al-Sharūd, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Simsārī, and ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ṣubayḥ, but he did not meet ʿAbd al-Razzaq.
Those who reported from him include Khaythama al-Aṭrābulusī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Badhashī (1), Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamza al-Jammāl, together with other travelling scholars.
He was nicknamed “The History of Yemen,” a work that he himself compiled.
Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī said, “He was a learned ḥāfiẓ and authored several books.”
He died in 288 AH; others maintained that his death occurred in 284 AH.
166 – Ibn Razīn, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Ayyūb al-Mawṣilī
Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Ayyūb ibn Razīn, the Imām, meticulous scholar, and ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Faḍl al-Mawṣilī, compiler of the Musnad, the Sunan, and other works,
narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmmār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Abī Khidāsh, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, and many others.
He was devout, humble, and contrite (2), and was considered to have one of the most beautiful voices for reciting the Quran.
This was stated by Yazīd ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī, who also transmitted from him.