Brown, Jonathan A.C

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī (b. 181/797, d. in Dhū al-Ḥijja 255/November 869 or 250/864–5) was a leading scholar of the Sunnī movement in Khurāsān. Of Arab ancestry and a native of Samarqand, he travelled throughout the Middle East in search of knowledge, …

Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Mahdī al-Dāraquṭnī (306–85/918–95) was a leading Sunnī ḥadīth scholar of the fourth/tenth century. Known as “the imām of his time” in ḥadīth , later Sunnī scholars often saw al-Dāraquṭnī as the last great ḥadīth scholar of the halcyon days of …