and among those who transmitted from him were al-Ṭabarānī, Yūsuf al-Bakhtarī, and a group of others. A man of scrupulous piety and devoted worship, he at first refrained from narration until he was instructed in a dream to relate ḥadith. He died in the month of Rajab, 294 AH, having been born in 200 AH.

His brother:

259 – Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, Abū al-Muthannā *
Reliable and exacting. He heard ḥadith from al-Qaʿnabī, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, and several others. Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Jaʿfar al-Muʾaddib, al-Ṭabarānī, and others. He lived for eighty years and died in 288 AH.

260 – al-Marwazī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ** (S (1))
The Imām, ḥadith master, and judge: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Umawī al-Marwazī, chief judge of Ḥimṣ. He was born some time after 200 AH.