98 – al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd al-Ghassānī, their client, from Damascus* (4)
The Imām, the erudite authority, the jurist of Damascus; Abū Aḥmad—also known as Abū al-Ḥārith—al-Ghassānī, their client, the Damascene.

He narrated from: al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Ḥārith, Tamīm ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Yaḥyā al-Dhimmārī, Abū Wahb al-Kalāʿī, Thawr ibn Yazīd, al-Muṭʿim ibn al-Miqdām, Zayd ibn Wāqid, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, al-Awzāʿī, and others.

Narrations were taken from him by: al-Walīd ibn Muslim—his close companion—, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujar, and many others.

Abū Dāwūd said: “Reliable, but a Qadarī.”
Al-Nasāʾī and others said: “There is no harm in him.”
Duḥaym remarked: “He was the most knowledgeable of both earlier and later scholars concerning the statements of Makḥūl.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “I know nothing about him except good.”
Ibn Maʿīn is also reported to have declared him trustworthy.
ʿAlī ibn Ḥujar said: “His kunya is Abū al-Ḥārith.”
Al-Nasāʾī, however, gave him the kunya Abū Aḥmad.
Abū Mushir stated: “He was weak and a Qadarī.”

I say: Ibn ʿAsākir recorded no date for his death, and he lived on until shortly before the year 190 AH.