and Muḥammad ibn Ashras, al-Sarī ibn Khuzaymah; he even journeyed to ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dāramī and took a large number of reports from him.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʾl-Ḥusayn al-Ḥajjājī, al-Ḥākim, Ibn Maḥmish, al-Sulamī, Yaḥyā ibn al-Muzakkī, and others besides.
Al-Ḥākim said, “He was truthful.” (1)
He told me, “I stayed in Baghdad in the year 284 AH for trade, yet I never heard anything there.” (2)(3)
He died in Ramaḍān of the year 346 AH, and Abū al-Walīd the jurist led the funeral prayer over him. (4)
298 – “al-ʿAllāf” Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥasan *
The shaykh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥasan al-Tamīmī, a Baghdadi known as “al-ʿAllāf.”
He narrated in Aleppo from Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Narsī, al-Kudaymī, al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad, and al-Bāghandī.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ṭubayz al-Sarrāj.