Also in this same year there were:
Ahmad ibn Muhammad, al-Mustaʿin bi-llah;
Ishaq ibn Buhlul ⦗1⦘;
Ziyad ibn Ayyub ⦗2⦘;
Muhammad ibn Bashar, known as Bundar ⦗3⦘;
Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna, nicknamed al-Zamin ⦗4⦘; and
Yaʿqub ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi ⦗5⦘.
Then the year 253 AH began.
In its month of Rajab al-Muʿtazz entrusted Musa ibn Bugha the Elder with an army of nearly four thousand men and sent him to fight ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Abi Dulaf in the vicinity of Hamadhan, for ʿAbd al-ʿAziz had risen in rebellion and commanded roughly twenty thousand troops. At the end of the month they inflicted on him a terrible defeat. A second engagement followed in Ramadan at al-Karaj, where ʿAbd al-ʿAziz was again routed and great numbers of his men were killed. Many of his dependants were taken captive—even his own mother fell into their hands—and they dispatched to the caliph seventy loads of severed heads along with numerous banners. Everything ʿAbd al-ʿAziz had seized from the caliph’s domains was recovered.
(1) Abu Ya‘qūb al-Tanūkhī al-Anbarī was a hadith scholar who studied under Ibn ‘Uyaynah and was his contemporary. Regarded as one of the leading imams, he authored works on qirā’āt (Quranic recitations), hadith, and fiqh, and held selected legal opinions; he was deemed reliable (thiqah). Sources: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, 12:489; al-‘Ibar, 2:3.
(2) Abū Hāshim al-Tūsī al-Baghdādī, also known as Dalluwaih and nicknamed Shubba al-Ṣaghīr (“the younger Shubba”) for his proficiency and erudition. He was celebrated for his honesty (ṣaduq). Sources: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, 12:120; al-‘Ibar, 2:3.
(3) Muḥammad ibn Bashshār ibn ‘Uthmān, Abū Bakr al-‘Abdī al-Baṣrī, nicknamed Bundār because he was acknowledged as the foremost ḥāfiẓ (hadith preserver) of his locality (“al-Bundār”: the preserver). Abū Dāwūd reported having recorded fifty thousand ḥadīths from him. He studied under Mu‘tamir ibn Sulaymān and Ghunḍar and was their contemporary. The six canonical hadith compilers transmitted from him. Sources: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, 12:144; al-‘Ibar, 2:3.
(4) Abū Mūsā al-‘Anazī al-Baṣrī was born in the same year as Bundār, coinciding with the death of Ḥammād ibn Salamah. A reliable ḥāfiẓ, he collected, compiled, and authored extensively. He was known for his honesty and piety. Sources: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, 12:123; al-‘Ibar, 2:4.
(5) Abū Yūsuf al-‘Abdī al-Qaysī, a mawlā (client) of that community, studied under Ḥushaym and Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘d and was their contemporary. His narrations were widely transmitted by the hadith scholars. Al-Khaṭīb described him as trustworthy and a skilled ḥāfiẓ who compiled a Musnad. Sources: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, 12:141; al-‘Ibar, 2:4.