20 — Al-Husayn ibn Alī ibn Yazīd ibn Sulaym al-Sudāī (1). He narrated from Ibrāhīm ibn Bashār al-Ramādī, al-Barā ibn Rustam al-Basrī, Abū Āsim al-Dahhāk ibn Makhlad al-Nabīl, Wakī ibn al-Jarrāh, and others. Al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāī in “Day and Night,” al-Bāghandī, Yahyā ibn Sāid, and others narrated from him. He died in 248 AH.

21 — Al-Rabī ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī al-Misrī (2), the hadith scholar, eminent jurist, and one of the last great luminaries, a companion of Imam al-Shāfiī and transmitter of his learning. He heard hadith from Abd Allāh ibn Wahb, Bashīr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, Ayyūb ibn Suwayd al-Ramlī, Saīd ibn Abī Maryam, and others. He died in 270 AH.

22 — Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, Abū Abd Allāh, son of Bakkār—known as Abū Bakr—ibn Abd Allāh ibn Musab ibn Thābit ibn Abd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwām ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad ibn Abd al-Uzzā ibn Qusayy ibn Kilāb (3). He heard hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, his uncle Musab ibn Abd Allāh al-Zubayrī, al-Nadr ibn Shumayl, and others. Ibn Mājah narrated from him in his “Sunan,” as did Abū Hātim al-Rāzī, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, and others. He authored “The Genealogy of Quraysh,” a substantial and valuable work. He died in Mecca in 256 AH.

23 — Ziyād ibn Ayyūb ibn Ziyād, the meticulous and eminent hadith master, Abū Hāshim al-Tūsī, later al-Baghdādī, who was also nicknamed Dalawayh (4). He heard hadith from Hushaym ibn Bashīr, Abd Allāh ibn Idrīs, Ibn Ulayyah, and others. Al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāī narrated from him,