four of them say, “subḥānaka wa biḥamdika ʿalā ḥilmika baʿda ʿilmik” (“Glory be to You; all praise is Yours for Your forbearance in spite of Your knowledge”), while the other four respond, “subḥānaka wa biḥamdika ʿalā ʿafwika baʿda qudratik” (“Glory be to You; all praise is Yours for Your pardon in spite of Your power”).

Yahyā ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī said: “Trustworthy.”

Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm the jurist remarked: “Yamān, Hārūn, and ʿAlī were the sons of Riʾāb: Hārūn was among the leading imams of the Sunnah, Yamān among the leading imams of the Khārijites, and ʿAlī among the leading imams of the Rāfiḍites—and they were mutually hostile.”

Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān said: “I called on Hārūn ibn Riʾāb when he was at the point of death. I did not miss the face of any virtuous man without finding him there.”
Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ asked him, “How do you find yourself?”
He replied, “Here is your brother, being taken toward the Fire—unless Allah pardons him.”

It is said that he lived for eighty-three years.

124 – al-Suddī Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān * (M, 4)

Ibn Abī Karīmah, the imām and Qurʾānic exegete, Abū Muḥammad, originally from the Ḥijāz and later a Kufan; nicknamed al-Aʿwar (“the one-eyed”) and known as al-Suddī, one of the freedmen attached to Quraysh.

He narrated from: Anas ibn Mālik, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbd Khayr al-Hamdānī, Muṣʿab ibn Masʿad, Abū Ṣāliḥ Bādham, Murrah al-Ṭayyib, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, and many others.

Those who narrated from him include: Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Zāʾidah, Isrāʾīl, al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayy, Abū (1) ʿAwānah, al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād, Asbāṭ ibn Naṣr, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, and others.