al-Fākhar, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalānī, Abū al-Fakhr Asʿad ibn Rūḥ, ʿAfīfah bint Aḥmad, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Arrajānī, Dāwūd ibn Niẓām al-Mulk, Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥasan al-Samarqandī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ikhwah, and ʿĀʾishah and Muḥammad—the children of Maʿmar—together with many others.
Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: “She came to us from the village of Jawzdān. Her birth was around the year 425 AH, and she heard from Abū Bakr in 435.”
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī reported to us; Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah reported to us; Abū Masʿūd ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥājī informed us that she passed away on the first of Shaʿbān, 524 AH.
The ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nuqṭah said: “She died on the fourteenth of Rajab.”
I (the author) say: She had heard al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr and al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr by al-Ṭabarānī, and the book al-Fitan by Nuʿaym (1), all from Ibn Rīdhah.
(1) Nuaym ibn Hammad ibn Muawiya ibn al-Harith al-Khuzaʿi al-Marwazi, who later settled in Egypt, was a well-known hadith memoriser. Al-Bukhari met him, yet in the Sahih he cites him only once or twice and records a few further reports in suspended form. Muslim quotes him in a single passage of the Muqaddima, and the compilers of the Sunan transmit from him except for al-Nasaʾi. Ahmad considered him reliable, as did Ibn Maʿin in one of his statements; but when asked on another occasion, Ibn Maʿin replied, “He is of no weight in hadith, though he is a man of the Sunnah.” Al-Ajurri reports from Abu Dawud that Nuaym related about twenty prophetic hadiths that have no sound basis. Al-Nasaʾi judged him “weak,” and elsewhere, “not trustworthy.” Abu Ali al-Naysaburi relates that he heard al-Nasaʾi praise Nuaym’s learning and his mastery of the Sunan; yet when asked whether his reports are acceptable, al-Nasaʾi answered: “His solitary narrations from the leading authorities are so numerous that he falls into the category of transmitters whose hadith is not used as evidence.” Ibn Qasim said: “He was truthful but frequently erred, and he transmitted objectionable hadiths on apocalyptic battles (malahim) that no one else reported.” Al-Darqutni summed him up as “an imam in matters of doctrine but prone to many mistakes.”