ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Khawlānī, of Ḥimṣ.
He was born around the year 130 AH.
He narrated from Safwān ibn ʿAmr, Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān, Arṭāʾah ibn al-Mundhir, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam, ʿAbdah bint Khālid ibn Maʿdān, ʿUfair ibn Maʿdān, Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, Yazīd ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Yashkurī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī, Saʿīd ibn Sinān, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yazīd ibn Tamīm, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Ibn Maʿīn, al-Dhuhlī, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yazīd al-Ḥawṭī (1), Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zanjuwayh, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥawṭī, and many others besides them.
Al-ʿIjlī said, “Trustworthy.” (2)
Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable.” (3)
Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” (4)
Ibn Zanjuwayh remarked, “I have never seen anyone more in awe of Allah than Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān, anyone more humble than Abū al-Mughīrah, anyone with a better memory than Yazīd ibn Hārūn, or anyone more intelligent than—”