and Ibn Fīl, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥalabī, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Tammām al-Bahrānī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah, Baqī ibn Makhlad, and a great many others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is reliable.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Kalāʿī said, “I accompanied him (2) on the journey to Mecca in 246 AH. He fell ill (3) at al-Juḥfah and died in Mecca, at Minā.
“He entered Mecca still suffering, and the ḥadith scholars visited him while he was in the throes of death. They read to him, but he was no longer conscious.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī said, “I saw Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā in a dream. I asked, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, have you not died? What has become of you?’
“He replied, ‘To something better—and, moreover, we behold our Lord twice each day.’
“I said, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, a man of the sunnah in this world and a man of the sunnah in the Hereafter as well?!’ He smiled at me.”
I say: Ibn Mājah also transmitted from Marrār ibn Ḥammūyah, from him.
Ṣāliḥ Jazara said, “He has some objectionable narrations, yet I hope he is truthful.” (4)
I (the author) say: He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 246 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us, saying: Akmal ibn Abī al-Azhar informed us, who said: Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us, who said: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us, who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us