al-Ḥākim, Abū Naṣr ibn Qatādah, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṣādiq—who later resided in Egypt—and others transmitted from him. Al-Ḥākim remarks: “A ḥadith scholar who travelled widely and listened extensively; his auditions are sound.” He died in 349 AH.
309 – Ibn Durustawayh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Fārisi *
The Imām, erudite authority, and leading grammarian, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Durustawayh ibn al-Marzubān al-Fārisi, a disciple of al-Mubarrad.
He heard abundantly from Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, transmitting on his authority both the latter’s History and his List of Teachers. In Baghdad he also heard from ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abū Muḥammad ibn Qutaybah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Kurbazān, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥunaynī.
He left the city of Fasā (1) in his youth for Baghdad, settled there, excelled in Arabic philology, composed numerous works, and was blessed with lofty chains of transmission.
He was deemed reliable.
He was born in 258 AH, and it was his father who undertook the journey with him.
Al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Mandah, Ibn Razqawayh, Ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, and others narrated from him.