Ibn al-Dubaythi

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Wāsiṭī, commonly known as Ibn al-Dubaythī, was an Iraqi muhaddith, historian and an expert in ilm al-rijal who composed, among other major works. He was one of the major historians of the late Abbasid era, and considered one of the best scholars of his time in hadith and its sciences.