or one or more ḥadiths that scholars have found objectionable with regard to that narrator. He is, however, fair in his assessments of transmitters, according to the limits of his own ijtihād.

Hamzah al-Sahmī said: “He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 365 AH.”

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī in Egypt and Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad al-Judhāmī at the frontier related to us, saying:
“Muḥammad b. ʿImād informed us; Ibn Rifāʿah informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khalʿī informed us; Abū Saʿd al-Mālīnī informed us; ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAdī the ḥāfiẓ informed us; al-Ḥasan b. al-Faraj narrated to us; Yaḥyā b. Bukayr narrated to me; Mālik narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar: A man invoked the procedure of liʿān (mutual imprecation) against his wife during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and denied paternity of her child. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ separated the couple and ascribed the child to the mother. (1)

112 – Ibn Mīkāl, Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad
The shaykh, the imām, the man of letters, and the chief of Khurāsān: Abū al-ʿAbbās Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Mīkāl, a descendant of the Persian king Kisrā Yazdegerd b. Bahrām Gūr. The caliph al-Muqtadir appointed his father ʿAbd Allāh as governor of the province of Ahwāz.

He received ḥadith from ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī—who gave him a book written especially for him—and he also heard from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Ibn Khuzaymah, ʿAlī b. Saʿīd al-ʿAskarī, and others. He held dictation sessions.

Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī the ḥāfiẓ—who was older than he—and Abū al-Ḥusayn