Muṭayyan said: he died in the year 161 AH.
134 – al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy al-Hamdānī (M, 4)
Ḥayy’s personal name was Ḥayyān ibn Shufayy ibn Hunayy ibn Rāfiʿ. He was a great imam, one of the notable authorities—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Hamdānī, al-Thawrī, the Kūfan jurist and devoted worshipper, and the brother of the imam ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ.
Al-Bukhārī traces his lineage as: al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Muslim ibn Ḥayyān.
Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī gives it as: al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy ibn Muslim ibn Ḥayyān.
I say: he is among the leading imams of Islam, were it not for his involvement in an innovation.
Wakīʿ said: he was born in the year 100 AH.
He narrated from: his father; Salama ibn Kuhayl; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār; ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar; Simāk ibn Ḥarb; Ismāʿīl al-Suddī; Bayān ibn Bishr; ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl; Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī; ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal; Bukayr ibn ʿĀmir; Qays ibn Muslim; Layth ibn Abī Sulaym; and Manṣūr ibn
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 6, p. 375; Khalīfah, al-Tabaqāt, p. 168; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh al-kabīr, vol. 2, p. 295 (records his death in 167 AH); Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿārif, p. 509; al-Fasawī, al-Maʿrifah wa-l-taʾrīkh, vol. 2, pp. 805-806; Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Duʿafāʾ, MS, pp. 83-85; Ibn Ḥibbān, Mashāhīr ʿulamāʾ al-amṣār, p. 170 (also places his death in 167 AH); Ibn ʿAdī, al-Kāmil, MS, pp. 176-179; Abū Nuʿaym, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 7, pp. 327-335; Ibn al-Nadīm, al-Fihrist, Book 5, Section 2 (gives his death as 168 AH); al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, MS, pp. 267-268; al-Dhahabī, Tadhhīb al-tahdhīb, MS, vol. 1, pp. 138-139; al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ, vol. 1, pp. 216-217; al-Dhahabī, Mīzān al-iʿtidāl, vol. 1, pp. 496-499; al-Dhahabī, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 249 (under the events of 167 AH); Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb, vol. 2, pp. 285-289; al-Suyūṭī, Ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ, p. 92; Ibn Ḥajar, Khulāṣat tahdhīb al-kamāl, p. 78; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-dhahab, vol. 1, pp. 262-263.