118 – Hannād ibn al-Sarī ibn Muṣʿab ibn Abī Bakr ibn Shabr ibn Ṣuʿfūq (ʿKh, M, 4)
He was an imām, an authoritative proof, a model to emulate, and the adornment of the worshippers. He was known as Abū al-Sarī al-Tamīmī, al-Dārimī, al-Kūfī, and he authored the book az-Zuhd as well as other works.
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj related that Hannād said, “I was born in the year 152 AH.”
He studied under Sharik, Abū al-Ahwaṣ, Ibn al-Mubārak, Hushaym, ʿAbthar ibn al-Qāsim, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Ibn Abī al-Zinād, Mulāzim ibn ʿAmr, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān, ʿAlī ibn Mushir, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Abū Muʿāwiyah, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, and many others.
Among those who benefited from him were Qabīṣah and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and he himself was counted among the worshipful masters of ḥadīth memorisation.
Those who transmitted from him include all the compilers of the canonical collections—al-Bukhārī did so only in works other than his Ṣaḥīḥ, by coincidence rather than deliberate omission—as well as Baqiyy ibn Makhlad, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Ramādī, al-Daqīqī, Muṭayyin, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Dhariḥ, his grand-nephew Abū Dārim Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā, and many others.
Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Isfarāʾīnī said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, when asked, “From whom should we write ḥadīth in Kūfah?” reply, “You must take from Hannād.”