109 – al-Haytham ibn Jamil, Abū Sahl al-Antakī * (Bukh., Q (1))
A ḥadīth master, leading Imām, eminent and reliable—Abū Sahl al-Antakī. He was originally from Baghdad and later settled in Antioch.
He narrated from: Ḥammād ibn Salamah, al-Layth, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Mālik ibn Anas, Sharīk, Mindhal ibn ʿAlī, and others of their generation.
Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhalī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Yūsuf ibn Muslim, and many others.
Al-Dāraqutnī said, “Reliable, a ḥāfiẓ.” (2)
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said, “Reliable, a man of the Sunnah.” (3)
Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī remarked, “He is not a ḥāfiẓ; he makes mistakes concerning trustworthy narrators, though I hope he does not lie intentionally.” (4)
ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ stated that he died in the year 213 AH. (5)
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 7:490; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 8:216; al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2:331; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 9:86; Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, fol. 820; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 14:56-57; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, 1:370; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1453; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4:125; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1:363; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 4:320; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1:365; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 3:230; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11:90; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 162; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 412; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:36.
(1) The sigla were absent from the base manuscript; they have been supplied from Tahdhib al-Kamal and its derivative works.
(2) Tarikh Baghdad, 14:57; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1453.
(3) Tarikh Baghdad, 14:57; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1453.
(4) Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, 4: fol. 820.
(5) Tarikh Baghdad, 14:57; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1453.