He narrated from: Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, al-Dhuhlī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād al-Abīwardī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Munīb al-Marwazī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim al-Ṭūsī, and others. He claimed to be one hundred and eight years old (1). Abū Muḥammad al-Balādhurī attested that he had indeed met those teachers (2).
Those who transmitted from him include: Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khālidī, Ibn Mandah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣīr, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurjānī, the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, and Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish. Al-Ḥākim also heard three fascicles from him, but they were lost. Ibn Mandah declared him reliable, whereas al-Ḥākim accused him, saying, “He never heard anything; these are his uncle’s books” (3). He died in 336 AH.
176 – ʿUmar ibn Sahl ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dīnawarī *
The ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative master, Abū Ḥafṣ—also known as Abū Bakr—al-Dīnawarī, al-Qirmīsīnī (4), one of the foremost imams of ḥadith.