he had keen understanding, took part in study sessions, and authored several works.
Ibn Mardawayh said, “He is trustworthy, reliable, and exceedingly prolific.”
He died in Rabi‘ al-Awwal of the year 339 AH.
225 – al-Sūsi, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah*
The authoritative hadith scholar, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah ibn Ghailān, al-Hamdānī, from Homs, a coppersmith, widely known as al-Sūsi.
He heard hadith from Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī, Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, and their contemporaries, in Egypt and Syria.
Among those who narrated from him are Shujāʿ ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAskarī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Tammām al-Rāzī, and Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said, “He was reliable.”
His books were of high quality, and he visited Egypt. He passed away in Ramadan of the year 339 AH.
226 – al-Rayyāsh, Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barmakī**
The shaykh and musnid, Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barmakī, an Egyptian known as al-Rayyāsh.
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shuʿayb ibn al-Layth transmitted from him; he was the last of his pupils.