Then his son ʿAbd Allah (1) came to power. He was devout, learned, valiant, courageous, and a poet, but after a single year his slave-boys assassinated him by treachery, whereupon his son Ziyādat Allah assumed the rule.

235 – Aḥmad ibn Khulayd, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Kindī al-Ḥalabī
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Nuʿaym, Abū al-Yamān, Yaḥyā al-Wuḥāẓī, al-Ḥumaydī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Tabbāʿ, Zuhayr ibn ʿAbbād, and their peers. A man of wide travels and sound knowledge, he lived to an advanced age. Those who transmitted from him include ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣṣīṣī, Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Dīnāwarī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and others. I know of no fault in him.

236 – (The brother of al-Sarrāj) Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaqafī *
Al-Sarrāj: a shaykh, an imām, and a trustworthy transmitter from Nīshāpūr who later settled in Baghdad. He narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Yazīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Farrāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī. Those who narrated from him include his brother Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Aḥmad ibn al-Munādī, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī. Al-Dāraquṭnī declared him reliable.