272 AH.

36 — Alī ibn Sahl ibn Mūsā—or, according to another report, ibn Qādim—Abū al-Hasan al-Ramlī (1), a hadith authority. He heard hadith from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Marwān ibn Muāwiyah, Hamzah ibn Rabīah, and a group of others. He died in 261 AH.

37 — Alī ibn Muslim ibn Saīd, the trustworthy hadith scholar and Iraq’s leading hadith transmitter, Abū al-Hasan al-Tūsī, later al-Baghdādī (2). He heard hadith from Jarīr ibn Abd al-Hamīd, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Mājishūn, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, Ibn al-Mubārak, and others. Al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāī, Yahyā ibn Maīn, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, and others narrated from him. He died in 253 AH at the age of ninety-three.

38 — Umar ibn Shabbah ibn Abdah ibn Zayd ibn Rāitah, the eminent scholar, historian, hadith master, authoritative scholar, and author of numerous works (3). He heard hadith from Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Qattān, Ghandar, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, and a great many others. Ibn Mājah, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibn Sāid, al-Kharāitī, and others narrated from him. He died in 262 AH.

39 — Amr ibn Alī ibn Bahr ibn Kanīz, the accomplished hadith master and critic, Abū Hafs al-Bāhilī al-Basrī al-Sayrafī, known as al-Fallās, and the grandson of the hadith scholar Bahr ibn Kanīz al-Saqqā (4). He narrated from Yazīd ibn Zuray, Ghandar, Ibn Uyaynah, Abd Allāh ibn Idrīs, and others. Those who narrated from him included