Ibn ʿAdī said, “He possesses acceptable narrations from al-Awzāʿī, some of which he alone relates, yet the mark of weakness upon his ḥadith is plain.”⦗1⦘

I (the author) add: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn once passed by him; the man honoured his stay and presented him with gifts, so Ibn Maʿīn felt shy toward him and did not exert himself in declaring him reliable. Still, it is permissible to report his ḥadith, and some of his high-level isnāds have reached us.

Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā said: He died in 218 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.

I was also told that he sent Ibn Maʿīn a purse of gold dinars and provided him with food. Ibn Maʿīn accepted the food but returned the purse, saying,

“By Allah, his generosity is commendable and his food delicious, but—by Allah—he never heard anything from al-Awzāʿī.”⦗2⦘

This report is transmitted with a broken chain.

77 – Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ al-Bahrānī al-Ḥimṣī * (ʿ)

The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, the authoritative proof: Abū al-Yamān al-Bahrānī, al-Ḥimṣī, the freedman of a Bahrānī woman named Umm Salamah, who had been married to ʿUmar ibn Rubah al-Taghlibī.

He was born around 133 AH and began seeking knowledge in the early 150s AH.