and Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.
Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “None of Abū Isḥāq’s offspring had a better memory than he.”
I add: Some authorities trace him to his grandfather and therefore say, “Yūsuf ibn Abī Isḥāq.”
He died in 157 AH in Kūfa.
12 – Abū ʿĀmir al-Khazzāz, Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustum al-Muzanī * (M, 4)
An exemplar and ḥadith scholar, Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustum al-Muzanī, their client, from Basra.
He narrated from: al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, ʿIkrimah, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, and a number of others.
Transmitters from him include: Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn Mahdī, Abū Dāwūd, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubāʿī, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, Abū Nuʿaym, and several others.
Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī said, “Reliable.”
Ibn ʿAdī remarked, “In my view he is unobjectionable; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd also narrated from him.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him “weak.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “His ḥadīth is to be written down.”
Abū Bakr al-Athram reported that he heard Aḥmad say, “His ḥadīth is acceptable.”
I add: Muslim cited him as an authority.
He died in the mid-150s AH.