Al-Bukhārī cited him, but only alongside another narrator. When Abū Zurʿah was asked about him, he replied, “Do you want me to say he is reliable? Reliability is Sufyān and Shuʿbah.”
- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taymī al-Madanī — (ʿ)
A ḥāfiẓ and, together with Sālim and Nāfiʿ, one of the scholars of Madinah.
His grandfather, al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn Ṣakhr ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kaʿb ibn Saʿd ibn Taym ibn Murrah al-Qurashī, was among the first Emigrants who accompanied the Messenger of Allah — and he was a cousin of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq.
Muḥammad saw Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ.
He transmitted mursal reports from Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr, Usāmah ibn Zayd, ʿĀʾishah, and Ibn ʿAbbās.
Among those from whom he related are Ibn ʿUmar, Abū Saʿīd, Jābir, Anas ibn Mālik, Maḥmūd ibn Labīd, ʿAlqamah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUjayr, ʿUrwah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the freedman of al-Ḥuraqah, Muʿādh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Taymī, Ibn Ḥāzim the date-seller, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, Ḥumayd ibn Qays al-Aʿraj, al-Zuhrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, Tawbah al-ʿAnbarī, Ibn ʿAjlān, Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, al-Awzāʿī, his son Mūsā ibn Muḥammad, Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī, and many others besides.
Ibn Saʿd said, “He was a jurist and a ḥadith scholar”—meaning his son Mūsā. (1)