Al-ʿUqaylī said: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; he said, ‘I heard my father mention Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī and remark: There is something questionable in his ḥadith—he transmits reports that are isolated and objectionable.’”

Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Khirāsh, however, all declared, “He is reliable (thiqqah).”

Al-Wāqidī added: “His kunya was Abū ʿAbd Allāh, and his grandfather al-Ḥārith was among the earliest Emigrants.”

Muḥammad passed away in the year 120 AH.

Ibn Saʿd said, “He was trustworthy and prolific in ḥadith.”

Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī stated, “He died in 119 AH at the age of seventy-four. I have also heard that he died in 120. He served as the ʿarīf—the registrar—of his clan.”

I (the author) say: Perhaps Mālik refrained from transmitting directly from him because of that official position, yet Mālik does narrate from a man who relates from him.

Al-Haytham, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, and al-Fallas all said that he died in 120 AH, while Khalīfah put it at 121 AH.

I (the author) further say: Among the rare reports for which he alone is the conduit is the ḥadith of “Actions” (1) transmitted from ʿAlqamah on the authority of ʿUmar. It has safely “crossed the bridge,” and the compilers of the Ṣaḥīḥ works have accepted it without a second thought (2).

Abū al-Faḍl ibn Tāj al-Umanaʾ informed us; Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad wrote to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Mustamlī related to us; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī narrated to us; Zāhir