Daybul is a town in the Indian region. (1)
He heard from: Muhammad ibn Zunbur, Saʿid ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi, al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Marwazi, and a number of others.
Narrated from him: Abu Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Abu Ahmad al-Hakim, Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn ʿAmmar al-Dimyati, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Firas al-ʿAbqasi (2), and others.
In his day he was regarded as the Musnid of the Sacred Precinct.
He died in Jumada I, 322 AH.
Through his chain I obtained, with an elevated isnad, the manuscript of Ismaʿil ibn Jaʿfar.
5 – al-Farabrī, Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Matar *
The hadith scholar, reliable authority, and learned master: Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Matar ibn Salih ibn Bishr al-Firabrī, the transmitter of the “Sahih Collection” from Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Bukhari. He heard it from him in Firabr twice.
He also received hadith from ʿAli ibn Khashram when the latter came to Firabr on frontier duty (3). And whoever claimed otherwise was mistaken.