9 - ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Nufayl al-Nufaylī al-Ḥarrānī (and Ḥarrān is located in northern Syria, and it is among the lands of the Jazīrah; there were and from it came a group of virtuous people and scholars in every field, and it is among the abodes of Muḍar. It has a history composed by Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Maʿshar al-Ḥarrānī, the ḥāfiẓ, in which he mentioned a group of the people of the Jazīrah, and he named it "The History of the Jazīrians." The Muslims opened it during the caliphate of the Commander of the Faithful ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb at the hands of ʿIyāḍ ibn Ghanm; it was taken by treaty in the year 18 AH.) The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the scholar of the Jazīrah. Abū Ḥātim, Abū Zurʿah, and al-Dhuhlī narrated from him. Abū Dāwūd said: "I have not seen anyone with a stronger memory than al-Nufaylī," and he said: "Aḥmad wrote from him while he was a young man." Abū Ḥātim, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Dāraquṭnī declared him trustworthy. He died in the year two hundred and thirty-four. And Abū Dāwūd narrated from him in the "Sunan" approximately one hundred and thirty-five ḥadīths.

10 - ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Shaybah al-ʿAbsī, their client, the Kūfan. The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the exegete, the author of works. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and Abū Ḥātim narrated from him, and Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy. Abū Ḥātim said: "He was greater than Abū Bakr" — meaning his brother, the author of "al-Muṣannaf" and "al-Musnad" — and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal praised him well. He died in the year two hundred and thirty-nine. Abū Dāwūd narrated from him in the "Sunan" approximately three hundred and eleven ḥadīths.

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(1) al-Mizzī in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" 16/88–92, and al-Dhahabī in "Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ" 10/634–637.
(2) al-Mizzī in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" 19/478–487, and al-Dhahabī in "Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ" 11/151–153.