228 – Ibn Samaʿah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Samaʿah al-Taymī,

Chief Judge of Baghdad and a distinguished scholar. His full name is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Samaʿah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Hilāl al-Taymī, originally from Kūfah and a disciple of Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad.

He narrated from: al-Layth and al-Musayyab ibn Sharīk.

Those who narrated from him include: Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān al-Ḍabbī and al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAnbar al-Washaʾ.

He also authored a number of works.

Ibn Maʿīn said: “If the ḥadith transmitters were as truthful in ḥadith as Ibn Samaʿah is in fiqh, they would have reached perfection in it.” (1)

Aḥmad ibn ʿAṭiyyah said: “His daily devotion was two hundred units of prayer.” (2)

Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān reported: “I heard him say, ‘For forty years I never missed the opening takbīr, except on the day my mother died. On that day I prayed twenty-five prayers, intending thereby to make up for it with a double count.’” (3)