ABU DA’UD, Sulaiman bin Da’ud At-Tayalisi:
Sulaiman bin Da’ud bin Al-Jarud Al-Basri was a Persianby origin and the freed slave of Az-Zubair. He was a great Hafidh and one of the eminent ‘Ulama. Al-Qallas and Ibn Al-Madini both said about him, ‘I have not seen someone who is more versed with the Hadeeth more than him.’ Ibn Mahdi said, ‘He is a most truthful person.’ He recorded Hadeeth from more than one thousand scholars. Abu Da’ud died in the year 204 H.