He narrated from: Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, and Hārūn ibn Isḥāq.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Bakr al-Warrāq—who praised him highly (1)—and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād, the ḥāfiẓ.
It was said of him that he had memorised the bulk of his hadith (2) and was trustworthy. I heard him say, “I was born in the year 231 AH.”
He died in 323 AH.
I say: he was the last person to narrate from Abū Kurayb (3).
Others who also took reports from him were Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kindī al-Ṭaḥḥān, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Juʿfī al-Harawānī, the final member of his circle. A small collection of his narrations has reached me.
He lived ninety-two years.
7 – al-Tarkhumī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and hadith scholar of Ḥimṣ: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Tarkhumī al-Ḥimṣī.
It is also said that his name was Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Saʿīd, and that he was ascribed to his grandfather.
Tarkhum is a clan of Yaḥṣub (4).