Muḥammad ibn al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd Allah al-Dārimī, al-Bukhārī, and a host of others.
Among those who narrated from him were Jumah the muʾadhdhin, Abū Bakr al-Rabʿī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Ibn Ḥibbān, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, and others.
He died in Jumada I, 314 AH.
234 – Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Fayyāḍ al-Ghassānī
The muhaddith, long-lived authority, and musnid, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ghassānī of Damascus.
He was born in 219 AH.
He received hadith from Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Ibrāhīm ibn Hishām ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Ghassānī, Duḥaym, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, his grandfather Muḥammad ibn Fayyaḍ, Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Anṭākī, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Ramlī—despite his seniority—Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah, Jumah ibn al-Qāsim, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Rabʿī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, and many others.
He is trustworthy—God willing; I know of no criticism against him.
He passed away in Ramadan, 315 AH.
He was devoted to hadith and possessed deep knowledge, though his grandfather is not well-known, having narrated only from Abū Mushir.