Ibn Dasa

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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn 'Abd al-Razzaq ibn Dasa al-Tammar was a student of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and one of the two transmitters through whom the Sunan is handed down, the other being Abu 'Ali al-Lu'lu'i. ¹

What he relayed from his teacher

Ibn Dasa reports hearing Abu Dawud say that he wrote down five hundred thousand reports from the Prophet ﷺ, selected from them what he put into the Sunan, and gathered there 4,800 reports, setting down "the sound, what resembles it and what comes near it". ¹ This statement is one of the main witnesses to Abu Dawud's method in his book.

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The Dar Ibn Hazm edition gives neither his birth nor his death nor his town; these remain to be taken from the biographical dictionaries.

Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi

Hamd ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Khattab of Bust, Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi (319–388 AH), a descendant of Zayd ibn al-Khattab, was a hadith scholar, jurist, man of letters, philologist and poet from Bust in the land of Kabul; he learned language and letters from Abu 'Umar al-Zahid, Isma'il al-Saffar and Abu Ja'far al-Razzaz and law from al-Qaffal al-Shashi, al-Hakim al-Nisaburi transmitted from him, and he wrote Ma'alim al-Sunan on Abu Dawud's Sunan, A'lam al-Sunan on al-Bukhari, Gharib al-Hadith and other works.

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Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi