the ḥadith master Naʿīm ibn Ḥammād (1). Naʿīm dictated to him a single fascicle—a high-isnād, so-called Ṭabrazadī booklet that came to be known as “the copy of Naʿīm ibn Ḥammād.”
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jiʿābī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zayyāt, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Luʾluʾ, and others. Al-Khaṭīb (2) judged him trustworthy.
He died in Rajab 302 AH, a little over ninety years of age.
87 – ʿAbbād ibn ʿAlī ibn Marzūq, Abū Yaḥyā al-Sīrīnī *
A venerable centenarian, Abū Yaḥyā al-Sīrīnī—client of the Banū Sīrīn, originally from Basra and later a resident of Baghdad.
He is deemed weak.
Born in 204 AH, he related ḥadith from Bakkār ibn Muḥammad al-Sīrīnī and Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Madāʾinī.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zayyāt, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkarī, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī—who declared him weak—Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and others.
He died in 309 AH at the age of one hundred and five. Had his death not come so late, he would have been listed alongside Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim and his peers.