Abu Bakr al-Khatib said, “He was reliable.”
He died in Baghdad at the beginning of the year 228 AH (1).
I add: he lived into his eighties.
We have heard his booklet from a little over sixty transmitters; they had received it from the students of Abu al-Waqt al-Sijzi, who had heard it from Muhammad Abu Masʿud al-Farisi, from Ibn Abi Shurayh, from al-Baghawi, from him.
The last person on earth to transmit it was Abu al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Shiḥnah al-Ṣāliḥī, and he lived for another ninety-seven years after hearing that fascicle.
I read to ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān, who told you—Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir and al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak—both saying:
“ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Farisi informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ informed us; Abu al-Qāsim al-Baghawi informed us; Abu al-Jahm informed us; Layth related to us, from Nāfiʿ:
‘ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar said: When three people are together, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would forbid two of them to converse privately to the exclusion of the third.’ ”
Muslim (2) also recorded it, from Qutaybah, from Layth.
170 – Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maymūn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥimmanī*
the ḥadith master, eminent imam, and leading scholar, Abū