and the Qur’an-reciter of Raqqa, Abū Marān Mūsā ibn Jarīr the grammarian; and the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Walīd ibn Abān al-Iṣbahānī.
214 – Ibn Khuzaymah, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Bakr al-Sulamī*—the ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative proof, the jurist, the Shaykh al-Islām, the Imām of the Imāms, Abū Bakr al-Sulamī al-Nīsābūrī, a Shāfiʿī and a prolific author.
He was born in 223 AH.
From an early age he dedicated himself to hadith and fiqh until he became proverbial for the breadth of his learning and the precision of his mastery.
He heard hadith from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh and Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd, yet he never narrated from either of them, having written from them while still a boy, before he had fully understood or gained discernment.
He also heard from: Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān; ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Marwazī; ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr; Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ; Bishr ibn Muʿādh; Abū Kurayb; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī and his brother Yaʿqūb; Isḥāq ibn Shāhīn; ʿAmrū ibn ʿAlī; Ziyād ibn Ayyūb; Muḥammad ibn Mihrān al-Jammāl; Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj; Yūsuf ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Hāshimī; Muḥammad ibn Bashshār; Muḥammad ibn Muthannā; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣanʿānī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Ḍabbī; and Naṣr ibn ʿAlī,