4 – Abū Hammām al-Walīd ibn Abī Badr al-Sakūnī * (M, D, T, Q)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable narrator, Abū Hammām al-Walīd—son of the imam Abū Badr Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd ibn Qays al-Sakūnī—was originally from Kūfa and later settled in Baghdad.
He received ḥadīths from his father, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qāḍī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and their peers.
He travelled widely in pursuit of ḥadīth, compiling and authoring works.
Those who narrated from him include Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, and many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “There is nothing wrong with him.” ⦗1⦘
Abū Kurayb stated, “The shaykhs never handed me a single book without the note, ‘Abū Hammām has finished it, Abū Hammām has finished it.’” ⦗2⦘
Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī recounted, “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say, ‘Abū Hammām possesses one hundred thousand ḥadīths narrated from trustworthy transmitters.’” ⦗3⦘