Al-Khaṭīb said: He held the office of Chief Judge after Abū Yūsuf and was generous, highly praised, and dignified. (1)

Aḥmad and Ibn Maʿīn declared, “He fabricates ḥadīth.” (2)

Al-Bukhārī said, “They kept silent about him.” (3)

Al-Khaṭīb also stated: He was a jurist, a transmitter of historical reports, open-handed, and of noble bearing. His mother—ʿAbdah bint ʿAlī ibn Yazīd ibn Rukānah al-Muṭṭalibiyyah—had been married by Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq. He authored works on genealogy, on the Prophet’s expeditions, and on other subjects. He died in the year 200 AH, at somewhat over seventy years of age.

121 – Sulaym ibn ʿĪsā ibn Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḥanafī, their client

The master of the Qur’an reciters, Abū ʿĪsā—also known as Abū Muḥammad—al-Ḥanafī, their client, from Kūfah. He was a pupil of Ḥamzah, the most proficient of his disciples, and his successor in teaching the recitation. Those who recited to him include Khalaf al-Bazzār, Khallād ibn Khālid, Abū ʿUmar al-Dūrī, Abū Ḥamdūn al-Ṭayyib, Aḥmad ibn Jubayr al-Anṭākī, Turk al-Ḥaddhāʾ (4), and many others.