ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, the Raqqan Jazīrī, known as Sanjah. (1)
He travelled in quest of knowledge and heard hadith from Abū Nuʿaym, Qabīṣa ibn ʿUqba, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ al-Ghudānī, Fayḍ ibn al-Faḍl, and their contemporaries.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAwāna al-Isfarāyīnī, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiqī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and others; al-Ṭabarānī relates from him more than anyone else.
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim said: “He transmitted a number of reports for which he had no corroboration.”
I (the author) say: Abū ʿAwāna accepted him as an authority.
He died in 280 AH. He was truthful in himself, though not precise.
196 – Rāfiʿ ibn Harthama *
The emir: he was appointed governor of Khurasan on behalf of Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir in 271 AH, when al-Muwaffaq deposed ʿAmr ibn al-Layth al-Ṣaffār from the governorship. Al-Muwaffaq then dispatched letters to Rāfiʿ instructing him to march on Jurjān, which belonged to al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd. Rāfiʿ besieged the city for two years and, in 277 AH, took possession of Ṭabaristān. When al-Muʿtaḍid succeeded to the caliphate, he removed Rāfiʿ from Khurasan and reinstated ʿAmr ibn