and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Bazzāz; Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Qāsim; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr—the father of the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Sawwāq; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad; and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ḥāzim—the Balkhis, ten in all.

Al-Kawsaj said, “I asked Aḥmad about Makkī and he replied, ‘Reliable.’”

Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr narrated from Yaḥyā that he said, “Upright.” (1)

Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” (2)

Al-ʿIjlī said, “Reliable,” and al-Nasāʾī said, “There is no problem with him.”

I say: He performed the Hajj many times and possessed both wealth and a trading business.

He transmitted from Mālik—through Nāfiʿ—from Ibn ʿUmar that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer for the Negus and pronounced takbīr four times. He alone reported this chain, then later retracted it when he realized he had erred and refused to relate it any further. Afterwards he discovered it written in his own notebook with the chain: from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd, from Abū Hurayrah (3), and said, “This is how it appears in my book.”