He pursued ḥadith with enthusiasm and narrated abundantly. Among those from whom he transmitted were: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, Jaʿfar ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-Ṭayālisī, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Barāʾ.

It was said that he possessed the History of Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah.

Those who reported from him include: Ibn Razqawayh, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĪsawī, Ibn Dāwūd al-Razzāz, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥadith master, and others.

Ibn al-Furāt the ḥadith scholar said: “He was not of great standing; toward the end of his life he narrated without consulting any original notes” (1).

Ibn Abī al-Fawāris remarked: “It was claimed that he had Ibn Abī Khaythamah’s History and the books of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, yet he possessed no primary manuscripts. He merely memorized anecdotes, and it is said that al-Mubarrad’s al-Kāmil was read out to him although he owned no copy of it.” He died in Ṣafar of the year 360 AH (2).

I say: He lived for ninety-eight years and a few days.

47 – al-Rāzī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥīrī *
The gnostic and senior figure of the fraternity, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥīrī, widely known as al-Rāzī, was a disciple of the ascetic Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥīrī.

He travelled widely and related ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Najdah, Yūsuf al-Qāḍī, and Abū ʿAbd-