finance my journey to Iraq, whereupon I was nicknamed al-Ḥuṣrī, despite the fact that neither I nor my forefathers had ever sold reed mats (1).

Al-Ḥākim said: al-Ḥuṣrī died in 303 AH.

121 – al-Khayyāṭ ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān *
The leading shaykh of the Baghdadi Muʿtazilites, endowed with exceptional intelligence and the author of refined compositions. He also studied hadith, writing from Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān and his cohort.

He is Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān. An ocean of knowledge, he enjoyed remarkable prestige among the Muʿtazilah and was a peer of al-Jubbāʾī (2).

He wrote the book al-Istidlāl, a refutation of Ibn al-Rāwandī’s work “The Disgraces of the Muʿtazilah,” the book Naqd Naʿt al-Ḥikmah, the book al-Radd ʿalā man Qāla bi-al-Asbāb, and other titles besides.

I do not know the year of his death.

122 – Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah ibn al-Walīd al-Shaybānī **
The unrivaled imām, Abū Jaʿfar al-Shaybānī of Kūfah.

He heard hadith from Abū Kurayb, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī, and their contemporaries.