192 – Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Sufyān ibn Qays, a Qurashī by clientage, Baghdadi tutor and author of widely circulated works, originally one of the freedmen of the Umayyads.
He was born in the year 208 AH.
The earliest teacher from whom he heard was Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān Saʿdawayh al-Wāsiṭī.
He also narrated from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Khālid ibn Khidāsh, ʿAbd Allah ibn Khayrān—the companion of al-Masʿūdī—and others of their rank.
Our shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥajjāj (1), has arranged the names of his teachers alphabetically, and they are many. Among them are: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Aḥmad ibn Janāb, Aḥmad ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭawīl, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Ḍabbī, Aḥmad ibn ʿImrān al-Akhnasī, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Birtī, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Aḥmad ibn Ziyād Sablān, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Harawī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah, Ibrāhīm ibn Ūrmah—who was younger than he—Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī, Ismāʿīl the judge—who outlived him—Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Zurārah al-Raqqī, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Abī