He was described as the copyist ( warrāq ) of Abū Dāwūd in Baghdad. He died in the year three hundred and twenty (1).

We say: His transmission is found with Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (2).

6 — Abū Sālim Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād ibn Māhān ibn Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Julūdī. Yūsuf al-Qawwās declared him trustworthy. He died in the year three hundred and twenty-nine. The Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī has mentioned his transmission of the Sunan from Abū Dāwūd (3).

7 — Abū Usāma Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Yazīd al-Ruwwās. He was mentioned previously in the discussion of Ibn al-Aʿrābī, where we noted that Ibn al-Aʿrābī transmitted most of the ḥadīths he had not heard directly from Abū Dāwūd through his own shaykhs, and that he narrated most of them from Abū Usāma al-Ruwwās, as Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī indicated. Both al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī and al-Dhahabī have mentioned his transmission from Abū Dāwūd (4).

8 — Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Shāhmard al-Ṣayrafī, the jurist of Baṣra, known as Ibn Khumayra. He heard from Abū Dāwūd in Damascus, and both al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī and al-Dhahabī have mentioned his transmission of the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd (5).

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(1) Al-Khaṭīb in Tārīkh Baghdād 6/395, Ibn Khayr in his Fahrasa p. 104, al-ʿAẓīmābādī in ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd 14/136, and al-Kawtharī in his introduction to Risālat Abī Dāwūd ilā ahl Makka.
(2) Al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ in al-Ghunya pp. 38 and 218, and Ibn Khayr in his Fahrasa p. 104.
(3) Al-Khaṭīb in his Tārīkh 5/311, and al-Dhahabī in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ 2/592, and in Tārīkh al-Islām, deaths 321–330.
(4) Al-Mizzī in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl in the biography of Abū Dāwūd, and in Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf (10930) and (12082), and al-Dhahabī in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ 2/592.
(5) Ibn ʿAsākir in Tārīkh Dimashq 2/folios 19–25, al-Mizzī in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl in the biography of Abū Dāwūd, and al-Dhahabī in al-Tadhkira 2/592.