Al-Ḥajjāj retorted, “I cannot tell in which of the two fields you are more knowledgeable—genealogies or creeds!”
Abu Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh also told me, quoting his father, that al-Shāmātī died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 292 AH.
In that same year there also died: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shabīb; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jakānī in Herat; Abū Saʿd Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr, likewise in Herat; Abū Muslim al-Kajji; Abū Khāzim ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd the judge; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Adanī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Bazzār; Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥaddād; Ṭāhir ibn ʿĪsā ibn Qayrus; Abū al-Ādhān ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Miṣrī; and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Rushdīn.
7 – ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nakhaʿī
The Imām, ḥadith memorizer, and authoritative scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nakhaʿī al-Rāzī—known in his homeland as “al-Mālikī” because he had gathered the reports of Imām Mālik—was one of the leading figures in this field.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, al-Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhri, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, al-Qāsim ibn ʿUthmān al-Juʿī, al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣibghī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Mājah, Dalaj al-Sijzī, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿUqaylī, Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd, and others.