Ismaʿil ibn ʿAmr, whereupon he spoke of him in glowing terms and added, “A shaykh of that standing, and they still declare him weak! He had in his possession reports from So-and-so and So-and-so.”(1)

Ibn Hibban mentions him in The History of the Trustworthy. Al-Daraqutni, on the other hand, judged him weak.

Ibn ʿAdi(2) said, “He transmitted from Misʿar and Sufyan narrations for which no one corroborates him.” Those who related from him include Usayd ibn ʿAsim, al-Qasim ibn Nasr, and ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Salam.

Ibn ʿAdi then cited several of his ḥadiths and remarked, “These, together with the rest of his narrations that I have not quoted, are for the most part unsupported; he is weak.”

I say: He died in 227 AH, having reached his nineties.

137 – ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Mutahhar ibn Husam al-Azdi * (B, D)

ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Miṣakk ibn Zalim ibn Shaytan, the imam, the reliable authority, Abu Zafar al-Azdi of Basra.

He narrated from Shuʿbah, Jarir ibn Hazim, Mubarak ibn Fadalah, Musa ibn Khalaf al-ʿAmmi, Sulayman ibn al-Mughirah, and a number of others.

Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, Ismaʿil Sammuyah, Abu Hatim, Ibrahim al-Harbi, Ahmad ibn Zuhayr, Ahmad ibn Dawud al-Makki, and ʿUthman ibn