as well as Wakīʿ, Ibn Mahdī, Shabābah, Ibn Wahb, Abū Dāwūd, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān, ʿAmr ibn al-Haytham Abū Qaṭan, Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, Ḥujayn ibn al-Muthannā, Asad ibn Mūsā, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī, Saʿdawayh al-Wāsiṭī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Juhanī the scribe, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Ghassān ibn al-Rabīʿ, Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, and many others.
Ibn Abī Khaythamah reported that his family originally came from Isfahan. He later settled in Medina, and whenever he met people he would say, “jūnī, jūnī.”
He also said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was asked, “How did he acquire the sobriquet al-Mājishūn?” He replied, “He picked up a Persian word, and (1) whenever he met someone he would say, ‘shūnī, shūnī,’ so he was nicknamed al-Mājishūn.”
Ibrāhīm al-Harbī stated, “Al-Mājishūn is a Persian term. He was called that because his cheeks were ruddy; the word actually means wine, and the people of Medina arabicised it.”
Another view holds that the original expression was “al-māhū kūna” (2), and he and his descendants have been known by it ever since.
Someone else remarked, “This nickname applies to him and to all the members of his household.”
ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥayyān said: “I found in a book written by my grandfather’s own hand that someone asked Abū Bakr, ‘Ibn Maʿīn has narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn—does he rank with al-Layth and Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd?’ He replied, ‘No, he is below them. He was a man who once espoused qadar and kalām, then he abandoned that and turned to the Sunnah. Ḥadīth was not his specialty; but when he arrived in Baghdad they wrote down what he transmitted, and thereafter he would say, “The people of Baghdad have made me a ḥadīth scholar.” He was truthful and reliable—meaning that he was not among the champions of ḥadīth such as Shuʿbah and Mālik (3).’”