Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable.”

Abū Dāwūd said, “I heard Qutaybah remark, ‘I never saw Wakīʿ honour anyone the way he honoured Hannād; after that he even inquired after his family.’ ”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy.”

The ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Salamah al-Naysābūrī related:

“Hannād—may Allah have mercy on him—was much given to weeping. One day, when he had finished reciting to us, he performed ablution, went to the mosque, and prayed there until the sun reached its zenith, while I remained with him. He then returned home, performed ablution again, came back and led us in the ẓuhr prayer. After that he stood on his feet praying until ʿaṣr, reciting the Qur’an aloud and weeping profusely.

“Then he led us in the ʿaṣr prayer and, picking up the muṣḥaf, continued reading until he performed the maghrib prayer.

“I said to one of his neighbours, ‘How steadfast he is in worship!’

“He replied, ‘This has been his daytime devotion for seventy years. What if you were to witness his worship at night? He never married, nor did he ever keep a concubine, and he was known as the Monk of Kūfah.’ ”

Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Thaqafī said, “He died on a Wednesday, the last day of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in the year 243 AH.”

I say: He lived for ninety-one years.

He is not to be confused with:

119 – Hannād ibn al-Sarī al-Ṣaghīr al-Dārimī,
who transmitted from his father Abū ʿUbaydah al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Sarī and from Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj.