Ibn al-Madīnī said, “Sufyān narrated to us, and Muṭarrif narrated to us—and he was trustworthy.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Bāhilī transmitted from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah that Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf said, “I would not be pleased to have uttered a single lie, even if the whole world and all it contains were mine.”
Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, on the authority of Dhawwād ibn ʿUlbah, said, “I do not know of any Arab or non-Arab superior to Muṭarrif ibn Ṭarīf.”
Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī said: “Muṭarrif died in 143 AH.”
Al-Bukhārī reported—on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Aswad from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī—that he died in 141 or 142 AH.
Ibn Ḥibbān put his death in 142 AH, while another view places it in 133 AH.
40 – Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad, the grandson of the Prophet’s Companion Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, al-Zuhri * (B, M, T, S, Q)
The imam and firmly grounded authority; his kunya was Abū Muḥammad al-Madanī.
He is counted among the younger Tābiʿīn.
He narrated from his father, from his two uncles—ʿĀmir and Muṣʿab—Anas ibn Mālik, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, Mālik, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and many more.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Reliable, an authority.”
Ibn ʿUyaynah remarked, “He was the most eminent of those men.”
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “He was among the jurists of Medina.”
I say: al-Ḥajjāj killed his father Muḥammad because he sided with Ibn al-Ashʿath (1), and this man was taken captive,