Muṣʿab ibn Ruzayq al-Marwazī, al-Sinjī.

He narrated from ʿAlī ibn Khashram, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Muqawwam, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Busrī, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Quhzādh, and their contemporaries. His transmissions were so numerous that it was said, “In Khurāsān there was no one who reported more hadith than he.” This remark was made by Ibn Mākūlā.

Toward the end of his life he lost his sight. He was almost unwilling to narrate to the people of speculative opinion, because they would listen to a hadith and then turn away from it to analogy (qiyās). (1)

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Ḥātim al-Bustī in his works, Zāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nuʿaymī, and a host of others.

He died in 315 AH.

Abū Bakr ibn Aḥmad informed us; he was informed by the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; he was informed by ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad (ḥ).

We were also informed by Ibn Hibat Allāh; he was informed by ʿAbd al-Muʿizz in his written transmission; he was informed by Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir; he was informed by Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī; he was informed by Zāhir ibn Aḥmad the jurist; he was informed by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab at Sinj, who said: ʿAlī ibn Khashram narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us, from Shuʿbah, from Qatādah, from Zurārah ibn Awfā, from Saʿd ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ undertook a practice, he would make it consistent, and whenever he happened to sleep during the night…”