al-Ḥarbi, and Muḥammad ibn al-Shikhkhīr. He was considered trustworthy and died in Shaʿbān, 310 AH.

Zabbān ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥaḍramī is also to be mentioned, as is the ascetic preacher Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Balkhī—the last surviving disciple of Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd.

248 – Abū Sakhrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Sāmī *
A muhaddith known for his truthfulness: Abū Sakhrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hilāl—also called Abū Muḥammad al-Sāmī al-Qurashī. His sobriquet was Abū Sakhrah al-Kātib, and he was among the long-lived scholars of Baghdad.
• He heard hadith from: ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwayn, and Yaḥyā ibn Aktham.
• Among those who narrated from him are Ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Bakr al-Warrāq, and ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbi.
• From the earlier generation, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid also took dictation from him.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable. He passed away in Shawwāl, 310 AH.

249 – ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurashī **
The muhaddith ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurashī, who worked as the copyist for Dāwūd ibn Rushayd.
He transmits from Dāwūd, from Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī, and from Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ.
Those who relate from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Nakhkhās, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, and ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar