and Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl Ibn ʿUlayyah, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Abū Hammām al-Walīd ibn Shujāʿ, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān, and others of their rank; he amassed a great many reports and transmitted them with precision.
Those who related ḥadith from him included Abū Shaykh Ibn Ḥayyān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Hārūn, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Shaʿʿār, and Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, who said, “He was the first shaykh from whom I ever wrote down ḥadith.”
Abū Shaykh remarked, “He was a treasury of truthfulness.” Abū Nuʿaym said, “He belonged to the devout of outstanding merit.” He died in Jumāda al-Ākhira, 302 AH.
I add: he had passed the age of eighty—may Allah have mercy on him.
77 – Ibn Zanjawayh, Muḥammad ibn Zanjawayh ibn al-Haytham al-Qushayrī*
The imam and ḥadith scholar: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zanjawayh ibn al-Haytham al-Qushayrī, of Nīshāpūr.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Yaḥyā, Ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAmr ibn Zurāra, Abū Marwān al-ʿUthmānī, Abū Kuraib, Yaḥyā ibn Aktham, and their contemporaries.
Among those who narrated from him were ʿAlī ibn Ḥamshādh, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿd, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, and other senior scholars.
I am aware of no defect in him.
Al-Ḥākim stated that he died in 302 AH.