al-Marwazī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Muqriʾ.
12 – al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Umawī * (D, S)
An Imām, a learned authority, jurist, hadith scholar, and paragon of reliability, he served as Chief Judge of Egypt. His kunya was Abū ʿAmr. He was the freedman of Zabān, son of the emir ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān—Umayyad by allegiance and Egyptian by domicile.
Born in 154 AH, he did not embark on the pursuit of knowledge until later in life. He posed only a single question to al-Layth and missed Ibn Lahīʿah, Mālik, and the other senior masters.
He transmitted from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbdullāh ibn Wahb, and Ibn al-Qāsim—studying jurisprudence under the last two—as well as from Yūsuf ibn ʿAmr al-Fārisī, Bishr ibn ʿUmar al-Zahrānī, Ashhab, and others.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, his son Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥārith, ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, ʿAlī ibn Qudayd, Muḥammad ibn Zabān ibn Ḥabīb, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Simnānī, and many others.
When Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was asked about him, he praised him and spoke of him in the most favorable terms.