ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim ibn Yazīd ibn Farrūkh al-Rāzī, a client of the Banū Makhzūm.

He also narrated from his uncle, the ḥadith master Abū Zurʿah; he journeyed and studied with Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā and a group of scholars in Egypt; with Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Ramādī and Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥayyān al-Madāʾinī in Baghdad; and with Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Muslim and others in al-Jazīrah.

Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī—the father of the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym—al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Dhakwānī, Aḥmad ibn the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and many others besides them.

Abū Nuʿaym said, “He was reliable and possessed original source-collections (1).”

He passed away here in Isfahān in 320 AH.

91 – Ibn Bulbul, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

The Imām, exemplar, and ḥadith master: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād, grandson of the leading scholar of Wāsiṭ, Yazīd ibn Hārūn; al-Zaʿfarānī al-Wāsiṭī, and later al-Hamadhānī.

His father was nicknamed “Bulbul” (2).

He narrated from al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, Aḥmad ibn Budayl, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ, and others of their generation.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad said, “We wrote down ḥadith from him; he was trustworthy, devout, and truthful.”

I heard him say, “I possess about fifty thousand hadiths on the authority of Abū Zurʿah” (3).