Al-Tayalisi was born in 133 according to the
Muslim calendar (the year 750 or 751 of the
Common Era) in the city of
Basra,
Iraq. He completed his initial studies in local town and then moved to
Baghdad for higher education where he was taught by great scholars of that time such as Hammad ibn Salama, Abu Awana and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman. Al-Tayalisi was considered a highly reliable hadith reporter by all
scholars of hadith. He traveled widely across many countries to collect
hadiths of
Muhammad to complete his book (). He died in 204
AH and was buried in Basra. He is not to be confused with
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, who is the author of
Sunan Abu Dawud, one of the
six "canonical" hadith collections. == His works ==