Sahl ibn Zanjalah said: “Abū ʿAlī al-Samtī narrated to us; Ghālib al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us, saying:
‘In earlier days we would supplicate: “O Allah, grant us the knowledge of al-Ḥasan, the scrupulousness of Ibn Sīrīn, the memorisation of Qatādah, the intellect of Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, the devotion of Thābit al-Bunānī, and the renunciation of Mālik ibn Dīnār—may Allah’s mercy be upon them all.”’
Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī said, “Sahl is reliable, an authoritative proof. He travelled twice in search of knowledge, produced several writings, and in precision and piety none of his peers in his time surpassed him.”
He added, “His son Muḥammad ibn Sahl relates from ʿAmr ibn Khālid and Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī.”
I say: It is reported that he died in 238 AH, when he was in his eighties—may Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.
257 – Ibn Abī Samīnah Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Hāshimī * (Kh, D)
The imam, devout worshipper, exemplar, warrior, ḥāfiẓ: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Samīnah al-Hāshimī, their client, from Basra—the muhaddith.
He narrated from Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, and their peers.
Narrators from him include: Abū Dāwūd in the Sunan; al-Bukhārī in the Ṣaḥīḥ through an unnamed intermediary; Abū Zurʿah; Abū Ḥātim; Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays; al-Bukhārī in his Tārīkh; Mūsā ibn Hārūn; Abū Yaʿlā; al-Baghawī; Muḥammad ibn al-Mujaddar; and many others.