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al-Dārimī, Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd (ca. 200–Dhū al-Ḥijja 280/816–February 894) was a theologian and leading ḥadīth scholar. His nisba ‘al-Dārimī’ indicates that he was a descendant of Dārim b. Mālik, of the Banū Tamīm (al-Dhahabī, Taʾrīkh, 20/396; al-Samʿānī, 2/440; Ibn al-Athīr, 1/404; al-Subkī, 2/302). He is also known by the title al-Sijistānī (Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 6/153), because his family derived from Sijistān, although he eventually settled in Herat.He travelled far and wide in the Islamic lands and learnt many ḥadīths. In his pursuit of learning he joined the audiences…

Bishr grew up in Baṣra and later moved to Mecca (al-Bukhārī, al-Ta⁠ʾrīkh al-ṣaghīr, 252). In Baṣra, he studied under scholars such as Ḥammād b. Salama, and in Mecca he studied ḥadīth from scholars such as Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī, Nāfiʿ b. ʿUmar al-Jumaḥī and Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān. Bishr also studied with Sufyān al-Thawrī and Ibn al-Mubārak, presumably in Kūfa, where he may also have taken lessons from Misʿar b. Kidām (al-Dhahabī, Muḥammad, Mīzān, 317–318; al-Mizzī, 4/123).Al-Layth b. Saʿd (94–175/713–791), the Egyptian traditionist and jurisconsult, is also named as o…