107 – al-Ṣūrī, Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak ibn Yaʿlā * (ʿ)
The imam, devout worshipper, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative scholar, jurist, and mufti of Damascus, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak ibn Yaʿlā al-Qurashī, al-Ṣūrī, known as al-Qalānsī.
He heard ḥadith from: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Mālik ibn Anas; Muʿāwiyah ibn Sallām; Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah; and a group of others.
Among those who narrated from him are: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī; Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf; ʿAbbās al-Taraqafī; Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Muslim; Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī; Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Burd; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad; and several others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “He was the shaykh of the city, issuing fatwas in Damascus after Abū Mus-hir.” (1)
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said, “He is reliable.” (2)
Abū Dāwūd said, “He was the leading man of Syria after Abū Mus-hir.” (3)
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “He was trustworthy.” (4)