84 – Harmalah ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Harmalah ibn ʿImrān (M, Q, S)
An imām, jurist, ḥadith scholar, and reliable transmitter; Abū Ḥafṣ al-Tujībī, a client of Banū Zumaylah from Egypt.
He narrated from Ibn Wahb—very extensively— and from al-Shāfiʿī, whom he accompanied and from whom he learned law; also from Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Bishr ibn Bakr, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Muslim, Ibn Mājah, and—through an intermediary—al-Nasāʾī; likewise Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Nasāʾī, Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Naysābūrī, Aḥmad ibn al-Haytham, his grandson Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Harmalah, Baqī ibn Makhlad, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Madīnī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqallānī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “He is not an authority whose reports are cited as proof.”
ʿAbbās al-Dūrī related from Yaḥyā: “There is an Egyptian shaykh called Harmalah; he was the most knowledgeable person regarding Ibn Wahb.”
Ibn ʿAdī said: “I asked ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Farhadhānī to relate something to me from Harmalah, and he replied, ‘Harmalah is weak.’ He then transmitted to me three ḥadith from him.”