Al-ʿIjlī likewise said: “Trustworthy, a righteous man, an adherent to the Sunnah.”
148 – ʿAlī ibn Muslim ibn Saʿīd al-Tūsī * (Kh, D, S)
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and musnid of Iraq. He was Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tūsī, later known as al-Baghdādī.
He heard narrations from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Mājishūn, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, Abū Yūsuf the judge, and many others.
He devoted himself to this discipline, collected reports, and compiled works.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, his companion Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Bakr al-Athram, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad, Abū Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, the judge al-Maḥāmilī (1), al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Qaṭṭān, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī also narrated—through an unnamed intermediary—from him and said: “There is no harm in him.”
I add: He died seven days before the end of Jumādā al-Ākhirah in 253 AH, at the age of ninety-three.
Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Isḥāq told us, saying: Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah informed us