Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, from his father, from his grandfather, who said:
I asked, “O Messenger of Allah, to whom should I show the greatest dutifulness?”
He replied, “Your mother.”
I said, “Then who?”
He answered, “Then your mother, then your father, then the nearest of kin, and then the next nearest.” (1)

179 – Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāshid al-Sulamī * (Kh, D, S, Q)
A leading imām, ḥāfiẓ, and man of proven integrity; senior judge, Abū ʿAmr—also known as Abū Sahl al-Sulamī—the jurist and chief judge of Naysābūr.

Born: a little after 130 AH.

On his travels he heard ḥadith from Misʿar ibn Kidām; ʿUthmān ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurasānī; Sufyān al-Thawrī; Isrāʾīl; Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-ʿArzamī; ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Jundab; and Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān—whom he accompanied for a time—as well as ʿUmar ibn Dharr and Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, and he is especially reliable in what he transmits from Ibn Ṭahmān.

Those who narrated from him include his own son, the ḥadith scholar Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ; Qaṭan ibn Ibrāhīm; Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Maḥmish; Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Khuzāʿī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Qashmard; Yāsīn ibn al-Naḍr; and Ayyūb ibn al-Ḥasan.

Among his contemporaries were Abū Nuʿaym and others.

Qaṭan ibn Ibrāhīm said: I heard him remark, “How unbecoming it is for an elderly ḥadith scholar to sit …”