and three hundred (307 AH). He was one of the last surviving ḥuffāẓ in his hometown, already in his eighties—indeed, older than that. The family name Mannūyah is spelled with a nūn.
145 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Bukhārī
The imam and reliable transmitter, Abū Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, better known as al-Bukhārī.
He heard ḥadith from Luwayn, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, and others of their rank.
Among those who narrated from him were ʿAbd Allāh al-Zabībī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Ibn al-Zayyāt, and Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, who said, “He is trustworthy.”
I say: He died in Rajab of the year five and three hundred (305 AH).
146 – al-Aʿraj Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī
The eminent imam, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority, Abū Zakariyyā al-Naysābūrī, nicknamed “al-Aʿraj.”
He heard ḥadith from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, and ʿAlī ibn Ḥujar,