and Rāfiʿ, Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān, and others of their rank.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAdī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaddādī al-Marwazī, and a number of others.
He taught ḥadith in both Nīshāpūr and Marw.
He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 313 AH.
His full name is Abū Yazīd Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Matta al-Khāldī al-Marwazī al-Mīramāhānī.
It is said that he lived eighty-six years.
His narrations are cited in the compilations of Muḥyī al-Sunnah al-Baghawī.
Another man of the same name is Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khālid ibn Mihrān al-Naysābūrī, the nephew of Salama ibn Shabīb. He too relates from Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh and from Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, and he narrated around the year 290 AH.
306 – al-Munkadirī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar*
The eminent imām and accomplished ḥadith master: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd