167 – al-Jawni, Mūsā ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd *

The imām, hadith scholar, reliable transmitter, and indefatigable traveller: Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Jawni, originally from Basra and later a resident of Baghdad.

He received narrations from Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ghiyāth, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād Zughbah, Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, Abū Hammām al-Sakūnī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, and their contemporaries in Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.

He lived to a great age and was counted among the ḥuffāẓ (master memorisers of hadith).

Among those who transmitted from him are: Daʿlaj al-Sijzī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zabībī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqrīʾ, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkarī, and others.

Al-Dāraqutnī regarded him as trustworthy.

He died in Rajab of the year 307 AH.

Up to this very year, there is still in Egypt a man who relates from Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr—al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd ibn Kāmil—whose narrations were written down by Ibn Yūnus.

168 – al-Haytham ibn Khalaf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dūrī **

The son of Mujāhid, meticulous and trustworthy, Abū Muḥammad.