together with Abu Mushir al-Ghassani, al-Hakam ibn Musa, Hisham ibn ‘Ammar, Sulayman ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, ‘Ali ibn Hujr, and a number of others.
Yahya ibn Ma‘in said, “There was no one in Syria more reliable than al-Hiql.”
Marwan al-Tatari said, “Al-Hiql was the most knowledgeable of people concerning al-Awza‘i—his gatherings and his legal verdicts.”
Ibn ‘Asakir stated, “Al-Hiql, Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Saksaki—his given name was Muhammad.”
Others say it was ‘Abd Allah, and that his cognomen was al-Hiql.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal remarked, “No one’s narration of al-Awza‘i’s hadith is more trustworthy than al-Hiql’s.”
Al-Fasawi said, “He is the highest-ranking of al-Awza‘i’s companions.”
Abu Sa‘id ibn Yunus reported, “Al-Hiql came to Egypt, its people wrote hadith from him, and he died in Beirut in the year 179 AH.”
The same date is likewise transmitted from Abu Mushir. We have no record of his birth, but he passed away shortly before reaching old age.
- Yusuf ibn Ya‘qub ibn Abi Salamah al-Majishun (Kh, M, T, S, Q)
The imam, hadith authority, and long-lived scholar, Abu Salamah, the Taymi client of the family of al-Munkadir, from Medina.