Volume Eleven
1 – al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī * (M, S, Q)
The Imām, ḥadith master, exemplar, and authoritative proof; Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī, known as al-Qanṭarī, the ascetic.
He received narrations from: al-ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, and their contemporaries.
Those who transmitted from him include: Muslim; through an intermediary, al-Nasāʾī; Ibn Mājah; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī; al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah; Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; and many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn regarded him as trustworthy.
Al-Ḥusayn ibn Fahm said, “He was a righteous man, firmly grounded in ḥadith.”
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥabībī recounted: “I asked Ṣāliḥ Jazara about Surayj ibn Yūnus, al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, and Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb; he declared all three highly reliable and added, ‘These three were wholly devoted to worship.’”