Abu Ḥātim said: “A shaykh, truthful, and devout; I consider him on a par with al-Qaʿnabī.” (1)
Al-Nasāʾī remarked: “There is no problem with him.” (2)
I add: He had two upright brothers—Rawḥ and ʿAbd Allāh.
Abu Saʿīd ibn Yūnus reported: “He died with five days remaining of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 219 AH, and the judge Hārūn led the funeral prayer over him.
He also said: ‘He was born in 145 AH.’” (3)
His traditions are recorded by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah.
197 – al-Lāḥiqī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd *
The imam, the trustworthy ḥāfiẓ: ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Lāḥiq al-Lāḥiqī, a Basran, and one of the city’s foremost hadith scholars.
He transmitted from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Dāwūd ibn Abī al-Furāt, Juwayriyah ibn Asmāʾ, Abū ʿAwānah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Abbār, Ibrāhīm ibn Fahd al-Sājī, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, and many others.
Among the senior scholars who related from him was ʿAffān ibn Muslim.