ibn Hadiyyah ibn Murrah ibn Saʿd ibn Yazīd ibn Murrah ibn Zayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dārim ibn Ḥanẓalah ibn Mālik ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm, the Tamīmī al-Dārimī from Bust, author of the celebrated works.
He was born in one of the years of the 270s AH.
The most senior teacher he met was Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥabbāb al-Jumaḥī; he heard ḥadīth from him in Basra, and also from Zakariyyā al-Sājī.
In Egypt he studied under Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, Isḥāq ibn Yūnus al-Minjaniqī, and several others.
In Mosul he learned from Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī;
in Nisā, from al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān;
in Jurjān, from ʿImrān ibn Mūsā ibn Mujāshiʿ al-Sakhtiyānī;
in Baghdad, from Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī and scholars of his generation;
in Damascus, from Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad, Muḥammad ibn Khuraym, and many others;
in Naysābūr, from Ibn Khuzaymah, al-Sarrāj, and al-Māserjisī;
in ʿAsqalān, from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah;
in Jerusalem, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm;
in Tiberias, from Saʿīd ibn Hāshim;
in Herat, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sāmī and al-Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs;
in Tustar, from Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zuhayr;
in Manbij, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd;
in al-Ubulla, from Abū Yaʿlā ibn Zuhayr;
in Harrān, from Abū ʿArūbah;
in Mecca, from al-Mufaḍḍal al-Jandī;
in Antioch, from Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Dārimī; and
in Bukhārā, from ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr.