He narrated from Hisham ibn ‘Urwah, Muhammad ibn ‘Ajlan, Isma‘il ibn Abi Khalid, and several others.
Those who reported from him include: Ahmad ibn al-Walid al-Fahham, Ahmad ibn Abi Ghrazah, Ahmad ibn ‘Ubayd ibn Nasih, and a number of others.
Ibn Ma‘in declared him a liar.
Al-Bukhari and others said: “His narrations are to be discarded” (1).
Ibn ‘Adi said: “Most of what he transmits from Hisham and others is not corroborated—whether in its chain or in its wording” (2).
I (the author) say: He died in 210 AH.
We have mentioned him only for purposes of differentiation—may Allah pardon him.
87 – ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqiq ibn Dinar ibn Mish‘ab al-‘Abdi
The imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the leading shaykh of Khurasan; Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-‘Abdi, their client, from Marw.
It is said that he was the client of the household of al-Jarud al-‘Abdi.
His grandfather Shaqiq was a Basran who later settled in Khurasan.
He narrated from: Abu Hamza Muhammad ibn Maymun al-Sukkari, and al-Husayn ibn