214 – al-Muqʿad al-Minqarī ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn Abī al-Ḥajjāj*

The Imām, ḥadith master, and meticulous critic; Abū Maʿmar al-Minqarī, their client, a Basran, known by the sobriquet “al-Muqʿad.”

His grandfather’s name was Maysarah.

He narrated from ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd—transmitting from him frequently and with great precision—Abū al-Ashhab al-ʿAṭāridī (Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān), Mulāzim ibn ʿAmr, ʿAbthar ibn al-Qāsim, ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar al-Madanī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī, and a number of others.

He was not an especially prolific transmitter, yet he was exacting in what he related. He was upright and reliable, though he espoused the doctrine of qadar, having adopted it while still a young disciple of ʿAbd al-Wārith.

Those who reported from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir, al-Faḍl ibn Sahl, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Muḥammad ibn Wārah, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī the ḥadith master, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Khirrāsh, al-Ramādī, al-Birtī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿUkbarī, and many others.

Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr related from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “He is trustworthy, firmly established.”(1)

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Junayd likewise reports from Yaḥyā: “Trustworthy, distinguished, intelligent.”(2)