He passed away in 334 AH.
I say: No hadith has reached us through his line of transmission. ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUthmān al-Ṣaffār cited him, and in that period Rāfiḍī Shiʿism and Muʿtazilism spread throughout Iraq under the Buyids.
187 – al-Kirmani, ʿAbd Allah ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq *
Al-Kirmani.
He narrated from: Yaḥyā ibn Baḥr al-Kirmani—the associate of Ḥammād ibn Zayd—and from Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Kirmani, although he never met the latter.
Those who related from him include: Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Manda, and Ibn Maḥmish.
Al-Ḥākim said, “He lived in my time, yet I did not hear from him.”
It is said that he was born in 250 AH.
188 – al-Baṣri, Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Dirham **
The imam, exemplar, righteous ascetic: Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Dirham al-Naysābūrī al-Muṭṭawwiʿī al-Ghāzī, popularly known as al-Baṣri.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Muʿādh, and others.
Related from him were: the ḥadith master Abū ʿAlī, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, and Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn—