Those who narrated from him include: Jarir ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid, ʿAbthar ibn al-Qasim, Hafs ibn Ghiyath, Marwan ibn Muʿawiyah, Muhammad ibn Fudayl, and others.
Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “Trustworthy, reliable.”
143 – Zakariyya ibn Ishaq al-Makki * (included by the major compilers)
One of the scholars of hadith.
He narrated from: ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Rabah, ʿAmr ibn Dinar, Abu al-Zubayr, Yahya ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Sayfi, and others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn al-Mubarak, Wakiʿ, Abu ʿAsim, Abu ʿAmir al-ʿAqadi, Rawh ibn ʿUbadah, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, and many others.
He was in himself reliable and truthful, though he was accused of holding Qadari views.
Abu Hatim said, “There is nothing wrong with him.”
Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “He is a Qadari.”
I [the author] say: He died in the early 150s AH.
144 – Muqatil ibn Hayyan ibn Dawaladur, Abu Bisṭam al-Nabati ** (Muslim, the Four)
The imam, scholar, hadith specialist, and reliable transmitter—Abu Bisṭam al-Nabati, from Balkh,