181 – ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr, Abū Saʿīd al-Nasāʾī * (S⦗1⦘)
The ḥadith master, meticulous critic, and author Abū Saʿīd al-Nasāʾī was held up as a by-word for exceptional memorization; he died long ago.

He transmitted from Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, Abū Nuʿaym, Abū al-Yamān, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, and their peers.

Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī—who cites him copiously—ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyār, Qāsim ibn Zakariyyā al-Muṭarriz, and others.

Al-Nasāʾī said: “Trustworthy, reliable, firmly established.”

Ibn Sayyār al-Farhiyānī⦗2⦘ reported: “I heard ʿAbbās al-ʿAnbarī say, ‘No one who has come to us is comparable to ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr and Abū Bakr al-Athram.’ I replied, ‘You rank our companion alongside al-Athram?!’—meaning that this man is superior to al-Athram.”

I (the author) add: I have not discovered the date of his death, but he ought to be mentioned together with al-Bukhārī.

182 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Umayyah al-Qurashī **
The imam, the truthful narrator, the transmitter of ḥadith, Abū