and al-Murādī; Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Jawlānī; Bakkār ibn Qutaybah; Abū Muslim al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shabīb al-Rabaʿī; Yaḥyā ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ; Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj; Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī; Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ; Zayd ibn Akhzam; ʿAbbād ibn al-Walīd al-Ghubarī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Fulaīḥ al-Muqriʾ; Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Khayyāṭ al-Makkī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī; Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Jawwāz; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī; al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār; Salamah ibn Shabīb; Muḥammad ibn Zunbūr al-Makkī; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī; Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Malās al-Dimashqī; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Bayrūtī—and many others. He gathered hadith, authored works, and held dictation sessions.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghawī—who was actually older than he—al-Jiʿābī, al-Shāfiʿī, al-Ṭabarānī, Ibn ʿAdī, al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ, ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr, Abū Muslim al-Kātib, many others, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ.
Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī said, “People used to say that in one and the same generation there were three imams: Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Khuzaymah, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim.”
Al-Khalīlī added, “And a fourth may be counted with them: Abū Muḥammad ibn Sāʿid—trustworthy, an imām, surpassing the scholars of his time in memorization. He travelled to Egypt, Greater Syria, the Ḥijāz, and Iraq. Some critics placed him ahead of his peers in memory—among them Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī. He died in the year eighteen, that is, 318 AH.”
I say: A number of his lofty isnāds have come down to us—even to our children and to those who hear from us.
Musallam ibn ʿAllān wrote to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, who reported from my father