Abu Dawud said, “Reliable—eminently reliable.”
Abu Hatim said, “Truthful.”
‘Ammar ibn Raja’ reports: “I heard ‘Ubayd ibn Ya‘ish say, ‘For thirty years I never once fed myself at night; my sister would place the morsels in my mouth while I continued writing.’”
I say: He was one of the ḥuffāẓ who never left their hometown to travel in search of ḥadith.
The ḥafiẓ Abu Bakr ibn Manjawayh and others stated that ‘Ubayd ibn Ya‘ish died in Ramadan, 229 AH.
113 – al-Muradi, Abu Sharik Yaḥya ibn Yazid ibn Ḍimad *
A hadith transmitter, trustworthy (ṣadūq): Abu Sharik Yaḥya ibn Yazid ibn Ḍimad al-Muradi, an Egyptian. He lived to a great age and attained seniority.
He narrated from:
Mālik ibn Anas, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Ḍimām ibn Ismā‘il, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, and others.
Narrated from him:
Abu Hatim, Ya‘qub al-Fasawi, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bāghandī, Muḥammad ibn Dāwud ibn ‘Uthmān al-Ṣadafī, and many others.
He died in Sha‘ban, 246 AH.
114 – al-Ṭanāfisi, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq ** (Q)
The imam, ḥafiẓ, meticulous authority, and hadith scholar of Qazwin: Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn