—he was sixty-three years old, and Abu Bakr was sixty-three, and so was ʿUmar.

Muslim recorded it (1) from Abū Ghassān.

Al-Samʿānī said, “Pronouncing the dāl of al-Dūlābī with a fatḥa is more correct. Dūlâb is one of the villages of Rayy.”

202 – al-Marwazī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm *
The ḥāfiẓ and master of precision, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Marwazī.
He travelled and collected hadith from Bundār, ʿAlī ibn Khashram, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAqda, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dārum, and others.
He died in 306 AH.

203 – Ibn Sufyān, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī **
The imam, exemplar, jurist, distinguished scholar, hadith master, and reliable authority, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān al-Naysābūrī, was one of the students of Ayyūb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zāhid al-Ḥanafī.
He was among the foremost imams of hadith.
He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ from Muslim with some gaps; he later completed it by wijādah (transmission based on finding a written copy) (2)—this was in the Book of Hajj, and in