‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani (211H)

Abd-ar-Razzaq ibn Hamam as-San'ani (126-211H)

Al-Hafidh al-Kabir, 'Aalim al-Yemen, ath-Thiqah. He traveled to the Hijaz, Sham, and Iraq where he took the hadith and handed it over to the greatest of his time, like Imam Ahmad, Yahya ibn Ma'in and Abu Khaythamah.