Those who transmitted from him include Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī al-Aqsāsī, Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAllān, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Manthūr al-Juhanī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUkbarī an-Nadīm, and others.

Al-Khaṭīb(1) said, “He was reliable (thiqa) and related hadith in Baghdad.” He added: “One of his contemporaries in Kūfah used to say, ‘From the time of Ibn Masʿūd up to his own day no one in Kūfah was more learned in jurisprudence than he.’ More than one person has reported this to me.”(2)

I say: In fact, between him and Ibn Masʿūd there were a number of Kūfan scholars whose understanding of the law surpassed his—such as ʿAlqamah, ʿUbaydah al-Salmanī, and others; then al-Shaʿbī and Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī; then Ḥammād, al-Ḥakam, Mughīrah, and several others; then Ibn Shubrumah, Abū Ḥanīfah, Ibn Abī Laylā, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh; then Sufyān al-Thawrī, Misʿar, al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Sharīk; and finally Wakīʿ, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Ibn Idrīs, and many more.

Al-Khaṭīb(3) also said: “Al-ʿAtīqī told me, ‘I have never seen anyone in Kūfah comparable to the judge al-Harawānī.’” Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī remarked, “He was trustworthy and dependable; he held the judgeship of Kūfah for many years and died in Rajab of the year 402 AH.”

I add: He lived for ninety-seven years.