= References; the correct identification is likely the one he established. He was Abu Qurra Musa ibn Tariq al-Zubaydi, the muhaddith, Imam al-Hujjah, Qadi of Zubayd, a scholar of the Sunan and the Athar. He died in 203 AH. Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) states that he composed Kitab al-Sunan by chapters in a single volume that I have seen, and this is probably the Musnad referred to by the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him). He is not mentioned in Brockelmann’s History of Arabic Literature nor in Sezgin’s Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums. See: – Al-Jarḥ wa al-Ta‘dīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 4/1/148. – Mīzān al-I‘tidāl by al-Dhahabī, 4/207. – Taḥdhīb al-Taḥdhīb by Ibn Ḥajar, 10/349–350. – Khulāṣat Taḥdhīb al-Kamāl by Ṣafī al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī, p. 391. – Mu‘jam al-Mu’allifīn by Kaḥḥāla, 13/40. – Al-A‘lām by al-Zarkalī, 8/273. (1) Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Jārūd al-Ṭayālisī—of Persian origin and one of the foremost memorizers of ḥadīth—was born in Basra in 133 AH and died there in 204 AH. He authored al-Musnad, in which he collected reports from certain Khurāsānī transmitters. This work is currently under critical editing in the Department of Sunna and Its Sciences at the College of Uṣūl al-Dīn in Riyadh for academic degrees but remains incomplete. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) included in it several ḥadīths on divine attributes. For example, see: p. 34, Ḥadīth 252; p. 63, Ḥadīth 467; p. 66, Ḥadīth 490; p. 67, Ḥadīth 491; p. 147, Ḥadīths 1092–1094; p. 295, Ḥadīth 2232. See also: – Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā by Ibn Sa‘d, 7/298. – Al-Jarḥ wa al-Ta‘dīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 2/1/111–113. – Tārīkh Baghdād by al-Baghdādī, 9/24–29. – Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, 1/351–352. – Kashf al-Ẓunūn by Ḥājjī Khalīfa, 2/1679. – History of Arabic Literature by Brockelmann, 3/155–156. – Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums by Sezgin, 1/1/182. (2) He is Abu Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Wahb ibn Muslim al-Fihrī (mawlā of Egypt), a compiler of fiqh…