Abū al-Faḍl Ibn Khayrūn said, “He mixed up some matters and arranged auditions for himself; he died in Ramadan of 472 AH. (1)
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī then remarked, “Ibn Khayrūn’s comment does not undermine him, for the whole substance of his criticism is that the man borrowed a fascicle from Ibn Khayrūn, entered in it a note of his own hearing, and then returned it—something students have always done.”
I say: I obtained a copy of al-Mujtabā (2) by Ibn Durayd with an elevated chain through his transmission; we heard it from ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās.
194 – Hayyāj ibn ʿUbayd, Abū Muḥammad al-Shāmī al-Ḥiṭṭīnī *
The Imām, jurist, ascetic, Shaykh al-Islam—Abū Muḥammad al-Shāmī al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, a Shāfiʿī and shaykh of the Sacred Precinct.
Birth: sometime after 390 AH.
He received hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Simsār; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn al-Ṭubayz; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf in Damascus; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī; several others in Baghdad; Abū Dharr the ḥāfiẓ in Mecca; al-Sakan ibn Jumayʿ in Ṣaydā; and from