52 — Muhammad ibn al-Muthannā ibn Ubayd al-Anazī (Ibn al-Muthannā) (1). Abū Mūsā, the Egyptian hadith master and reliable authority, narrated from Ibn Uyaynah, Ghundar, and a great many others. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, the four compilers, Abū Zurah, Abū Hātim, and many others narrated from him. He died in 252 AH.

53 — Muhammad ibn Mansūr al-Tūsī (2). The exemplary hadith master, leading scholar of Islam, and devout worshipper Abū Jafar al-Tūsī, later al-Baghdādī, heard hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, Muādh ibn Muādh, Ibn Ulayyah, Yahyā al-Qattān, and others. Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāī, al-Mahāmilī, and others narrated from him. He died in 254 AH.

54 — Muhammad ibn Najih Abī Maʿshar al-Sindī, Abū Abd al-Malik (3). He narrated from his father and others, and al-Tirmidhī narrated from him. His grandfather was Abū Maʿshar Najih ibn Abd al-Rahmān, the hadith scholar who wrote on the Prophet’s military campaigns.

55 — Muhammad ibn Yazīd ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr (Abū Hishām al-Rifāī) (4). The jurist, eminent hadith master, scholar, and judge of Baghdad narrated from Abū al-Ahwas Sallām, Hafs ibn Ghiyāth, and others. Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Ahmad ibn Zuhayr, Ibn Khuzaymah, and others narrated from him. He died in 248 AH.

56 — Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Ramlī (5). He heard hadith from Ādam ibn Abī Iyās and Alī ibn Ayyāsh,