and Abū Jaʿfar Muṭayyin, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bukhārī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad ibn al-Mujaddar, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥasan the genealogist, and many others.
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “He was trustworthy, firmly grounded, and precise.”
Abū Dāwūd said, “He was knowledgeable about the transmitters, yet he did not put that knowledge to use.”¹
I say: Perhaps he was occupied—Allah knows best—with preparing for the crossing to the next world.
Ibrāhīm ibn Urmah, the ḥāfiẓ, remarked, “Only three such men remain in the world today: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī in Khurāsān, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt in Iṣfahān, and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī in Mecca.”
I add: al-Ḥulwānī died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 242 AH.
I read this to Zaynab bint ʿUmar in Baalbek, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū ʿAmrah ibn Ḥamdān informed us; Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī narrated to us; ʿImrān ibn Abān narrated to us; Muslim narrated, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, who told me from Abū al-Zubayr, from Ṭāwūs, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās:
The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—entered upon Ḍubāʿah while she was ill and said, “Perform Hajj, make a stipulation, and say: ‘My state of release will be wherever You detain me.’”²