as well as Ibn Muslim, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Abū Hilāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, al-Yamānī Abū Ḥudhayfah, Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm, and a host of others.
He possessed a famous recension noted for its elevated chain of transmission.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥinnāʾī, ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Bashīr al-Rāzī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable.”
As for Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī’s claim that “the hadith scholars declared him weak,” that is merely a slip of Abū al-Faraj’s own making. Up to this very hour I have found no one who graded him weak, and Abū Ḥātim—well-known for his stringent criticism—saying “truthful” about him should suffice for you.
He died in 238 AH.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad informed us, saying: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from Qatādah, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Bakrah—that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“If two Muslims confront one another with their swords, both the killer and the slain are in the Fire.” (1)