And I almost picture him on the third of the (three) days at Mina, when his study-circle had become light of attendees from every direction; the sons of ink-pots and finely sharpened pens were there, together with the slim wooden tablets admired by every carpenter. (1)
121 – His brother: Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Isḥāq — a ḥadith transmitter, an upright imām.
Born: about 120 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī, Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā, Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥassān, Misʿar, and their peers, yet he was neither prolific nor exceptionally meticulous.
Those who narrated from him include: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, al-Fallās, al-ʿAdanī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭanāfisī, and others, the last of them to die being al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān.
Ibn Maʿīn said, “He was a Muslim, trustworthy, but he was not counted among the specialists of ḥadith.”
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is not strong.”
It is said that he died in the year 199 AH.
122 – al-Khulqānī Ismāʿīl ibn Zakariyyāʾ (ʿ), the ḥadith scholar and ḥāfiẓ, Abū Ziyād al-Kūfī, al-Khulqānī.