Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī said, “He was the face and ornament of the people. His annual income reached one hundred thousand, yet no zakāt was ever due from him. His stipends and gifts circulated lavishly among the hadith scholars and the people of learning and virtue—such as Abū Masʿūd and ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās. He was also one of those especially close to Sufyān ath-Thawrī.
It is said that Sufyān even performed the pilgrimage on his (al-Ḥusayn’s) mount. (1)
I say: The last person known to have narrated from him was Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jayrānī. (2)
He died in 212 AH, when he was in his early eighties.
91 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Kalaʿī * (Kh, D, T, S)
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the meticulous master—Abū Muḥammad al-Kalaʿī, originally from Damascus and later resident in Tinnīs.
He narrated from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, Mālik, al-Layth, Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyā at-Ṭarābulusī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim al-Ḥimṣī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid, and Muḥammad ibn—
(1) Akhbar Isfahan, vol. 1, pp. 274-275; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fols. 287-288.
(2) Al-Samani records the nisba in al-Ansab 3/407 as follows: the first consonant is a jim with fathah, the ya is quiescent, followed by ra, and the word ends with nun. He explains that it refers to Jiran, a village about two farsakhs from Isfahan, and notes that its most famous bearer is Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Jirani.
(*) Al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 5/233; id., al-Tarikh al-Saghir 2/338; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 5/205; Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, fol. 438; al-Mizzi, Jamʿ Bayna Rijal al-Sahihayn 1/268; al-Samani, al-Ansab 3/96; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq 29/186; al-Dhahabi, al-Muʿjam al-Mushtamal 163-164; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 758; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 2/196/2; id., Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/404-405; id., al-ʿIbar 1/373; id., al-Kashif 2/145; Ibn Hajar, Mizaan al-Iʿtidal 2/528; id., Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6/86; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz 172; id., Husn al-Muhadara 1/346; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tahdhib al-Kamal 219; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/44.