- ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, Abū Hishām al-Hamdānī (ʿ)
The ḥāfiẓ, the reliable authority, the Imām—Abū Hishām al-Hamdānī, al-Khārifi (1), a client of that clan, from Kūfa.
He was born in 115 AH.
He transmitted ḥadith from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, al-Aʿmash, Ashʿath ibn Sawwār, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar al-ʿUmarī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Makhzūmī, and many others of their tier.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, the sons of Abū Shaybah, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Abī al-Safar, and a great many more.
He was counted among the vessels of knowledge.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others deemed him reliable.
Among those who narrated from him was his own son, the ḥadith master Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr.
ʿAbd Allah died in 199 AH.
A number of his elevated isnāds have reached me; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim has informed us