and so he was forgiven.” Recorded by Muslim (1).
296 – Ibn Ḥayyuwayh, Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The imam, ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and musnid: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Baghdādī, known as al-Khazzāz and Ibn Ḥayyuwayh, one of the learned specialists in ḥadith.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Baghandī, Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzubān, ʿAbd Allah b. Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿUbayd b. al-Muʾammil, ʿUbayd Allah b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī—the companion of Ibn al-Madīnī—Badr b. al-Haytham, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī, Muḥammad b. Hārūn al-Mujaddar, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Abū al-Fatḥ b. Abī al-Fawāris, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, ʿAlī b. al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and others.
He narrated the more extensive works.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was reliable; he wrote ḥadith throughout his life and transmitted the major compilations.”
He was born in 295 AH.
Abū al-Qāsim al-Azhari related to me