al-Bukhārī, Muslim, the four Sunan compilers, and others. He died in 249 AH.

40 — Imrān ibn Bakkār ibn Rāshid al-Kalāī, al-Barrād al-Himsī, the muezzin and venerable hadith scholar and master (1). He heard hadith from Muhammad ibn Humayr al-Sulayhī and Abū al-Yamān. Al-Nasāī, Abū Awānah, and others narrated from him. He died in 272 AH.

41 — Mujāhid ibn Mūsā ibn Farrūkh al-Khuttalī, the hadith master and ascetic, Abū Alī al-Khwārizmī (2). He settled in Baghdad and narrated from Hushaym, Abū Bakr ibn Ayyāsh, Ibn Uyaynah, Ibn Ulayyah, and others. Muslim, the four Sunan compilers, Abū Zurah al-Rāzī, and others narrated from him. He died in 244 AH.

42 — Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Jafar, Abū Bakr al-Sāghānī (3), the meticulous and authoritative hadith master. Abū Bakr heard hadith from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Rawh ibn Ubādah, Saīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abd al-Alā ibn Mushir, and others. Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāī, Ibn Mājah, and others narrated from him. He died in 270 AH.

43 — Muhammad ibn Bashshār ibn Uthmān al-Abdī, the hadith master (4), Islam’s eminent transmitter, Abū Bakr al-Abdī al-Basrī, known as Bundār. He was given this epithet because he was the hadith master of his age—a bundār being a hadith master. He narrated from Yazīd ibn Zuray, Ghandar, Wakī, and many others. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, the four Sunan compilers, and many others narrated from him. He died in 252 AH.