and among those who narrated from him were al-Dhuhlī, Yaʿqūb al-Sadūsī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Isḥāq al-Khuttalī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and others besides.

al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy.

Ibn Maʿīn said, “His ḥadīths are sound, though I do not know him.”

He died in Ramaḍān of the year 228 AH.

A number of his ʿawālī (high-chain narrations) have reached me.

25 – Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Maymūn ibn Qudāmah al-Balkhī* (S)

Some read the name as “Razīn” instead of Qudāmah. He was the scholar of Balkh, Abū Isḥāq al-Bāhilī al-Balkhī, the jurist better known as al-Mākiyānī.

Mākiyān is a village in the vicinity of Balkh.

He was the brother of ʿIṣām and Muḥammad.

He transmitted ḥadīths from Mālik, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Sharīk, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Hushaym, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, and others of their stature.

Those who reported from him include al-Nasāʾī; Muḥammad ibn Karrām, the head of the Karrāmiyyah; Ḥāmid ibn Sahl al-Bukhārī; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawwār; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Duwayrī; Muḥammad ibn al-Munḏir al-Harawī, known as Shakkar; Aḥmad ibn Qudāmah al-Balkhī; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā, “the Tailor of the Sunnah”; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣiddīq; and many others.

Both al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Ḥibbān rated him as trustworthy.

Ibn Ḥibbān added, “Outwardly he follows the doctrine of irjāʾ, while inwardly he adheres to the Sunnah.”

I heard Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad relate: “I heard Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Fūʿī say, ‘I swore that I would record only from someone who maintains that faith is words and deeds.’” So I went to Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, informed him, and he said, “Record.”