4 - The Imam, the proof, the exemplar, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Abū al-Sarī Hannād ibn al-Sarī ibn Muṣʿab ibn Abī Bakr ibn Shibr al-Tamīmī al-Dārimī al-Kūfī, author of the book _al-Zuhd_ and other works. Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj narrated that he said: "I was born in the year one hundred and fifty-two." The [six] scholars of the canonical collections all narrated from him, but al-Bukhārī [narrated from him] in other than his _Ṣaḥīḥ_, by agreement [of the scholars] and not out of avoidance. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was asked: "From whom should we write [ḥadīth] in Kūfa?" He replied: "You must go to Hannād." Abū Dāwūd said: I heard Qutayba say: "I never saw Wakīʿ magnify anyone as he magnified Hannād." He never married and never took a concubine, and he was called "the monk of Kūfa." He died on Wednesday, the last day of the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year two hundred and forty-three, and he lived ninety-one years. (1) The number of ḥadīths that al-Tirmidhī narrated from him is two hundred and eighty-nine.

5 - The Imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the trustworthy Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghawī, then al-Baghdādī. His origin was from Marw al-Rūdh. He traveled, collected [ḥadīth], and compiled the _Musnad_. The six [scholars of the canonical collections] narrated from him, but al-Bukhārī [narrated from him] indirectly. Ṣāliḥ Jazara and others declared him trustworthy. He was born in the year one hundred and sixty, and died in Shawwāl of the year two hundred and forty-four. (2) The number of ḥadīths that al-Tirmidhī narrated from him is two hundred and fifty-five.

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(1) _al-Siyar_ 11/465–466.
(2) _Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ_ 1/483–484.