and al-ʿAṭṭār, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, and many others.

Those who narrated from him include the remaining compilers of the Six Books—apart from al-Bukhārī—together with ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, the Imām of the imams Ibn Khuzaymah, and others.

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy, reliable; I have hardly seen a shaykh in Basra like him.”

I say: He was the oldest shaykh encountered by ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr the ḥāfiẓ.

More than one critic declared him reliable.

He passed away in his nineties, in 248 AH.

62 – Sandūl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Qurashī al-Hamadhānī *

The hadith scholar of Hamadhān.

He transmitted from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Nuʿaym, and a host of others.

Those who reported from him include Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿīsh al-Baghdādī, Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd, Abū Dāwūd in his book al-Marāsīl, Muṭayyan al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū Maysarah Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, al-Layth ibn Idrīs, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād, and others.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad the ḥāfiẓ said, “He authored many books; he is one of the trustworthy and righteous.”

Another remarked, “He was frequent in military campaigns, pilgrimage, and worship, and he enjoyed great prestige.”

It is said that Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn held his stirrup for him.

It is also said that he performed the pilgrimage forty times—may Allah have mercy on him.