, known as al-Anmāti (1), the brother of Muḥammad (2).
He transmitted reports from Qurra ibn Khālid, Shuʿbah, Juwayriyah ibn Asmāʾ, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, the two Hammāds, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, Mālik, and several others.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī—while the rest did so through an intermediary—Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Abū Muḥammad ad-Dārimī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm Shādhān, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā adh-Dhuhlī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ar-Raqqī, Ismāʿīl the judge, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable, distinguished.” (3)
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjli stated: “Trustworthy, a righteous man. He worked as a broker who would take a single grain from every dinar. A well-to-do hadith student from Khurasan came; he bought bedspreads through him, and the merchant gave him thirty dinars. He asked, ‘What is this?’ The man replied, ‘Your brokerage fee.’ He said, ‘Your dinars are cheaper to me than this dust—give me one grain for every dinar.’ So he accepted from him one dinar and a few small coins.” (4)
Khalaf Kurdūs said: “Hajjāj was a man of Sunnah who proclaimed it openly. He died in 216 AH.” (5)