Al-Khaṭīb said: I asked al-Azharī about him and he replied, “He is ṣadūq—reliable. His hearing was from his brother’s notebooks, but some ḥadith scholars read to him parts of those books for which he had no audition, then inserted his name into the audition record. Others later came, erased that insertion, and repudiated it. As for the shaykh himself, he was trustworthy in his own right.” (1)

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī said: “His auditions were sound.” (2)

Al-ʿAtīqī said: “He was trustworthy; he lost his sight toward the end of his life and died in Shawwāl of the year 386 AH.” (3)

Al-Barqānī said: “He is worth nothing.” (4)

I say: A copy of the high-chain (ʿawālī) narrations of Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn has reached us from his collection, and I have cited it in several places.

395 – Al-Mukhladī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad*

The imām, the truthful, the musnid: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Mukhlad ibn Shaybān al-Mukhladī, the Nīshāpūrī, al-ʿAdl—shaykh of probity and the last of the noble households.

He heard from: Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan, and Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī,