146 – Abū al-Jamāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Tanūkhī * (D, Q)
The eminent imām, ḥadith scholar, master memorizer, and firmly reliable authority; known as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū al-Jamāhir, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Tanūkhī, the Damascene from Kafr Sūsā (1).
He received ḥadith from: Khulayḍ ibn Daʿlaj, Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī, Abū Dāwūd in his Sunan, Isḥāq ibn Sayyār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Busrī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, al-Ḥasan ibn Jarīr al-Ṣūrī, and many others besides them.
He was deemed reliable by his companion Abū Mushir and by Abū Ḥātim (2).
ʿUthmān al-Dārimī said, “He was the most trustworthy transmitter we met in Damascus. I saw the townspeople unanimously agree on his righteousness, and I saw them prefer him over Hishām and over Abū Ayyūb—meaning the son of the daughter of Sharḥabīl (3).”
Abū Dāwūd said, “He is trustworthy.” (4)