78 – al-Rasʿanī, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Qāsim ibn al-Layth ibn Masrūr*
The imam, ḥadith scholar, authoritative proof, meticulous transmitter, and widely traveled seeker: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Qāsim ibn al-Layth ibn Masrūr al-ʿAttābī, known as al-Rasʿanī (1), who resided in the city of Tinnīs (2).
He learned from al-Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī, Ibn Abī al-Shawārib, ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣayrafī, Bishr ibn Hilāl, and their peers.
Those who narrated ḥadith from him include al-Nasāʾī in his book Al-Kunā, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shuʿayb, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Mawṣilī, the ḥadith master Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh, Ibn ʿAdī, al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Abyad, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥayyawayh al-Naysābūrī, and others.
Hamzah al-Sahmī said, “I asked al-Dāraqutnī about him, and he replied, ‘Trustworthy and reliable.’”
Ibn Yūnus stated, “He died in Tinnīs in 304 AH; he was trustworthy.”
79 – Ibn al-Akhram, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Ayyūb al-Iṣbahānī**
The eminent imam, leading ḥadith memorizer, and traditionist: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Ayyūb—