al-Dūryastī, the name of a Imāmī Shiʿi family distinguished in the fields of ḥadīth and jurisprudence from the 4th–6th/10th–12th centuries.

Yāqūt (2/621) provides an accurate version of this name ‘Dūryast’ and refers to it as that of a village in the vicinity of Rayy. This is corroborated by the nisba al-Rāzī that is given to some members of the family (Ibn Nuqṭa, 3/295; Ibn Ḥajar, 3/269). In some sources the distorted forms of al-Dūyasī and al-Dūrī are given (Ibn Ḥajar, 3/269; al-Ṣarīfīnī, 261). Al-Shūshtarī affirms that Dūryast was pronounced…