—out of ascetic devotion and noble conduct—to al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayy. He told him that he possessed nothing, so al-Ḥasan brought out six dirhams and said, “I have nothing else.”
He replied, “Glory be to Allah! You have nothing but these, and I should take them?”
Yet Ibn Ḥayy insisted that he accept them, so he took three and left three.
I (the author) say: He died before the year 170 AH.
125 – Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makhḥūlī al-Dimashqī * (4)
A ḥadith scholar who later resided in Basra.
He transmitted from: Makḥūl—after whom he is named; I believe he was the son of Makḥūl’s freedman—ʿAbda ibn Abī Lubāba, Layth ibn Abī Ruqayya, Abū Wahb ʿUbayd Allah al-Kalāʿī, Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, and a number of others.
Those who reported from him include: Sufyān and Shuʿba—both of whom died before him—Baqiyya, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Ḥabbān ibn Hilāl, ʿĀrim, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī, Bishr ibn al-Walīd, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, and many others, the last of them being ʿAbd Allah ibn Muʿāwiya al-Jumaḥī.
Imam Aḥmad declared him reliable.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Trustworthy.”
Al-Nasāʾī and others said: “He is not strong.”