Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī (b. 181/797, d. in Dhū al-Ḥijja 255/November 869 or 250/864-5) was a leading scholar of the Sunnī movement in Khurāsān. Of Arab ancestry and a native of Samarqand, he travelled throughout the Middle East in search of knowledge, voyaging to Egypt, the Hijaz, Syria, and Iraq. He studied with and heard ḥadīth s from the greatest Sunnī scholars of his day: Yazīd b. Hārūn (d. 206/821), Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl (d. 212/827), and Muḥammad