matters that relate to the mode of delivery—and Allah knows best. Today the consensus has become firmly established that Hamzah’s recitation is to be accepted.
57 – Miskīn ibn Bukayr, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harrānī * (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harrānī, the sandal-maker.
He narrated from Thābit ibn ʿAjlān, Arṭāʾah ibn al-Munḏir, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿbah, and a number of others.
Transmitted from him: Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb al-Harrānī, his son al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad, Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn Abī Karīmah, Mūsā ibn Ayyūb al-Naṣībī, and others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “There is no harm in him; his narrations are sound.”
More than one scholar said, “He is truthful.”
It was also said, “He has some reports from Shuʿbah that are objectionable.”
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim (1) said, “He has many weak (munkar) narrations.”
It is said that Miskīn died in the year 198 AH.