Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Sarakhsī—better known as al-Daghūlī.
Al-Ḥākim states in his book “Muzakkī al-Akhbār”: “Abū al-ʿAbbās was one of the outstanding imams of his time in Khurāsān in the sciences of language, jurisprudence, and ḥadith transmission. He remained in Naysābūr for many years, studying under Muhammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr, and their peers, and he travelled through Iraq and the Ḥijāz recording ḥadith from Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Aḥmasī and others of that rank.”
I add: He also received ḥadith from al-Zaʿfarānī, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī, Aḥmad ibn Sayyār, Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Quhzādh, Muhammad ibn Mushkān, Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allah, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-ʿAbdī, Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣāʾigh, Muhammad ibn al-Jahm, Abū Qilābah, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Rabīʿ, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī ʿĪsā, Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Masarrah, Aḥmad ibn Abī Gharzah, Muhammad ibn al-Muhallab al-Sarakhsī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Hāshim al-Ṭūsī, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, and others of their generation.
He authored and compiled numerous works.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Ḥātim ibn Ḥibbān, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū al-Walīd the jurist, Muhammad ibn Aḥmad al-Karābīsī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmr al-Bustī, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Dhuhl, Abū Bakr al-Jawzaqī, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ḥārith, the ḥadith master Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, and many others.
Among his writings are the Book of Etiquette, the Book on the Virtues of the Companions, and other works.
Al-Ḥākim further relates: “I heard the teacher Abū al-Walīd say: It was said to Abū al-ʿAbbās …”