138 – Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kūfī, later al-Madanī * (ʿ)
A hadith scholar and ḥāfiẓ, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Kūfī, then al-Madanī; he was a client of Banū ʿAbd al-Madān.
He narrated from: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah; Yazīd ibn Abī ʿUbayd; Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Khuthaym ibn ʿIrāk; al-Juʿayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid; and ʿImrān al-Qaṣīr.
Transmitters who took from him include: al-Qaʿnabī, Qutaybah, Isḥāq, Hannād, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Abū Kurayb, and many others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is dearer to me than al-Darāwardī.”
A number of critics declared him reliable.
Ibn Ḥibbān stated that he died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, on the ninth day of the year 187 AH.
139 – Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd ibn Ṣāʾid ibn Kaʿb ibn Ḥarīz al-Ḥimyarī ** (ḫt, M, 4)
The ḥāfiẓ, the scholar, and the leading hadith authority of Ḥimṣ,
(*) Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh (History), p. 91; Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 276; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, 3/258; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 213; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1/112/2; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 1/428; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 1/292; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 2/128; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 66; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/309.
(* *) Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 317; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 2/150; al-ʿUqayli, al-Duʿafa, 1/59; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, 2/434–436; Ibn Hibban, Kitab al-Majruhin wa al-Duʿafa, 1/200–202; Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, 1/43–44/2; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 7/123; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq (ms.), 19/2–203/2; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 6/277; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, pp. 158–159; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1/87/2; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/266; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 1/154; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 1/473–478; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 54.