and their contemporaries. He also received hadith from Yahya ibn Musa Khatt (1), and, though already an old man, he travelled far and wide to disseminate his learning.

Those who narrated from him include his nephew Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Zakariyya ibn Ḥayyūyah al-Naysaburi, who later settled in Egypt; Makki ibn ʿAbdan; Abu al-ʿAbbas ibn ʿUqda; Abu Ḥamid ibn al-Sharqi; and others.

Even in his advanced years he continued to seek out hadith in Egypt.

He died in the year seven and three hundred (307 AH). A figure who resembles him in one respect is the Aleppo resident Jaʿfarak al-Naysaburi al-Aʿraj, who lived on until after the year ten and three hundred (310 AH); we shall mention him later (2).

147 – Abu Shaybah al-Baghdadi, Dawud ibn Ibrahim ibn Dawud

The shaykh, hadith scholar, learned authority, and truthful narrator, Abu Shaybah Dawud ibn Ibrahim ibn Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Ruzbah al-Baghdadi, who later resided in Egypt.

He heard hadith from Muhammad ibn Bakkar ibn al-Rayyan, ʿAbd al-Aʿla ibn Hammad, ʿUthman ibn Abi Shaybah, and Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Razi.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn ʿAdi, Abu Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Jaʿfar ibn al-Fadl the mu’adhdhin, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Muhandis, and others.