; al-Firyābī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; and a great many others.
Abū Dāwūd said, “He had memorised about ten thousand hadiths: the hadiths of Ashʿath with their intricate legal questions, the hadiths of Muʿtamir, and the hadiths of Khālid.”
I saw him teaching the hadiths of Sufyān al-Thawrī to his own son, and he was eloquent.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said, “Reliable.”
Al-Bukhārī said, “He died in 237 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq told us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar the judge, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī told us:
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslimah told us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān told us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muʿādh narrated to us; my father narrated to us; Ḥusayn the instructor narrated to us, from Ibn Buraydah, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The thing I fear most for you after I am gone is every hypocrite who is eloquent of tongue.” ⦗1⦘
82 – ʿAmr ibn Rāfiʿ ibn al-Furāt al-Bajalī (Ibn Mājah)
The ḥadith memoriser, eminent imām, and firmly reliable authority, Abū Ḥujr al-Qazwīnī.