and eighty and two hundred.

32 — Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Abd al-Hakam ibn Nāfi, Abū al-Hasan al-Warrāq al-Baghdādī (1). He heard hadith from Abū Hamzah al-Laythī, Yahyā ibn Sulaym al-Tāifī, Muādh ibn Muādh, and others of their generation. Abū Dawūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāī, al-Baghawī, Ibn Sāid, and a group of others narrated from him. He died in 251 AH.

33 — Ubayd Allāh ibn Abd al-Karīm ibn Yazīd ibn Farrūkh al-Makhzūmī, the hadith master (Abū Zurah al-Rāzī) (2). He was the foremost of the hadith masters. He heard hadith from al-Qanabī, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abū Nuaym, and others. Ahmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūī, al-Hasan ibn Bishr al-Bajalī, and al-Hasan ibn al-Rabī al-Būrānī narrated from him.

34 — Alī ibn Harb ibn Muhammad ibn Alī ibn Hayyān, Abū al-Hasan al-Tāī al-Mawsilī, a trustworthy hadith scholar, man of letters, and the leading hadith transmitter of his time (3). He heard hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, Hafs ibn Ghiyāth, Abd Allāh ibn Idrīs, and others. Al-Nasāī, Ibn Sāid, al-Mahāmilī, Abū Awānah, and many others narrated from him. He died in 265 AH.

35 — Alī ibn Dāwūd ibn Yazīd al-Tamīmī al-Qantarī, al-Ādamī, Abū al-Hasan, the hadith master (4). He heard hadith from Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh al-Ansārī, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Abd Allāh ibn Sālih al-Kātib, and others. Ibn Mājah, Haytham ibn Kulayb, Ibrāhīm al-Harbī, and others narrated from him. He died in the year