as well as Abū Khaythama, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Abū Kurayb, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Ibrāhīm ibn Mujashshir (1), and many others besides.

He settled in Baghdad, disseminated knowledge there, and produced a number of written works.

Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī said, “Hushaym kept with him twenty thousand hadiths.”

I (the author) say: He was a towering figure in memorization, yet he was also known for extensive tadlīs (concealing one’s intermediary), a trait for which he became famous.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “Hushaym did not hear from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, nor from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, nor from Abū Khālid, nor from Sayyār, nor from Mūsā al-Juhanī, nor from ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān”—and then he named many others—“meaning that his reports from them are transmitted by tadlīs.”

Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī said: “Hushaym’s father used to trade in ṣiḥnāʾ (2) and kāmakh, and he would forbid Hushaym from seeking knowledge. Nevertheless, Hushaym continued writing down hadiths until he debated Abū Shaybah the judge and kept his company in matters of jurisprudence.

“When Hushaym fell ill, Abū Shaybah came to visit him. A man went to Bashīr and said, ‘Go to your son, for the judge has come to visit him.’

“So he came, found the judge in his house, and said, ‘When did I ever hope for this? I used to prevent you, my son, but as of today I shall hinder you no more.’”

Wahb ibn Jarīr said: “We asked Shuʿbah, ‘Shall we write down hadith from Hushaym?’ He replied, ‘Yes—even if…’”