as did al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāī, Ibn Mājah, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Baghawī, Abū Zurah al-Rāzī, Yahyā ibn Sāid, and others. He died in 253 AH.

13 — Ahmad ibn Mansūr ibn Sayyār ibn Muārik al-Ramādī al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr, the meticulous hadith master (1). He transmitted Abd al-Razzāq’s books from him and also narrated from Abū Dāwūd al-Tayālisī. He was a great repository of knowledge. Ibn Mājah, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Abū Awānah, and others narrated from him. He died in 265 AH.

14 — Ahmad ibn Manī ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Baghawī, Abū Jafar al-Asamm, the hadith master (2) and compiler of the Musnad. He narrated from Hushaym, Abbād ibn al-Awwām, Sufyān ibn Uyaynah, Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, and others. The compilers of the Six Books all narrated from him except al-Bukhārī, who narrated from him through an intermediary. Yahyā ibn Sāid, Ishāq ibn Jamīl, and many others also narrated from him. He died in 244 AH.

15 — Ismāīl ibn Mūsā al-Suddī, the shaykh and hadith scholar of Kufa, Abū Ishāq (3). He heard hadith from Umar ibn Shākir, who narrated from Anas, as well as from Sharīk ibn Abd Allāh, Mālik ibn Anas, and others. Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Arūbah, and many others narrated from him. He died in 245 AH, having lived into his nineties.

16 — Bahr ibn Nasr ibn Sābiq al-Khawlānī, Abū Abd Allāh al-Misrī, a client of Banū Sad of Khawlān (4). He narrated from Abd Allāh ibn Wahb, Damrah ibn Rabīah, and Ayyūb ibn Suwayd,