227 – Muhammad ibn al-Minhāl al-Baṣrī, the perfume-merchant,
– the brother of the reliable ḥāfiẓ Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl (1) al-Anmāṭī.
He narrated from: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, and Fayyāḍ ibn Thābit.
From him transmitted: Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Muṭayyan, and a number of others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I asked my father about this man and about al-Ḍarīr, and he replied, ‘Both are trustworthy, but al-Ḍarīr has a stronger memory and is sharper of mind.’” (2)
Ibn Ḥibbān also listed him in al-Thiqāt.
Our shaykh Abū al-Ḥajjāj (3) said: “It is also said that he died in the year 231 AH.”
In that same year there died as well: Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Baṣrī al-Athram, ʿUbādah ibn Ziyād al-Kūfī, Khālid ibn Mirdās in Baghdad, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Buwayṭī the jurist, Muḥriz ibn ʿAwn, Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Khuzāʿī the martyr, ʿAlī ibn Ḥakīm al-Awdī, Khalaf ibn Sālim the ḥāfiẓ, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah, Hārūn ibn Maʿrūf, ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asmāʾ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Salām al-Jumaḥī—and his brother Muḥammad—, Umayyah ibn Bisṭām, and Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah.