and Rishdin ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, and Ibn al-Qāsim.
Those who narrated from him include: Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, Baqiyy ibn Makhlad, Abū Zurʿah, Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Jawnī (1), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn Ḥabīb, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-ʿAssāl, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿUmar ibn Abī Bujayr (2), Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Fayyāḍ al-Dimashqī, Ismāʿīl ibn Dāwūd ibn Wardān, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Maʾmūn, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Washshāʾ, and many others besides them.
Al-Nasāʾī and al-Dāraqutnī declared him trustworthy.
Ibn Yūnus said: “He was the last of the reliable transmitters to relate from al-Layth, and he narrated from him profusely.”
He died on the 2nd of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 248 AH.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: “He was reliable and acceptable.”
I (the author) say: A high-isnād fascicle of his ḥadith—specifically the second fascicle—has reached me, containing narrations from al-Layth ibn Saʿd transmitted through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd from him, and some of his reports also appear in Ibn Abī Dāwūd’s work al-Baʿth.
139 – ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr ibn Iyās ibn Muqātil al-Saʿdī * (B, M, T, S)
Descendant of Ibn Mukhādish ibn Mushamrij; the ḥāfiẓ, the erudite scholar, the authoritative proof, Abū