Muhammad b. Yahya al-Tamimi of Nishapur, known as Ḥusaynaka; he was also called Ibn Munayna.
He heard hadith from ʿUmar b. Abī Ghailān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, al-Bāghandī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd Allah b. Zaydan al-Bajalī, and their contemporaries.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, al-Barqānī, Abū Ḥafṣ b. Masrūr, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was trustworthy, an authoritative transmitter.”
Al-Ḥākim added, “Truthfulness predominates in what he heard.”
He is the Shaykh of the Arabs in our land and the heir to an ancient legacy; his forefathers were distinguished. I accompanied him at home and on journey, and for about 30 years I never saw him neglect the night vigil. Each night he would recite one-seventh of the Qur’an, and his charity flowed freely, both secretly and openly.
On one occasion he equipped ten fighters with full gear as a substitute for himself, and he served on the frontier more than once.
Al-Ḥākim said: “His first audition was in 305 AH.”
Whenever Ibn Khuzaymah was absent from the sultan’s assembly he would send him to act in his stead. He honored him and preferred him to his own children, and he was raised in Ibn Khuzaymah’s care.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 375 AH.
I (the author) say: He lived a little over eighty years.
Ibn ʿAsākir informed us—through Abū Rūḥ, Zāhir, Abū Saʿd, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī, al-Baghawī, Hudbah, Ḥammād, Thābit, Abū Rāfiʿ, and Abū Hurayrah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “There was a tree that was harming people on the road, so a man cut it down and removed it from the path,