Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable.” (1)
Al-Nasā’ī and others declared, “Trustworthy.” (2)
Ibrāhīm al-Harbī remarked, “Even if lying were lawful, Hārūn al-Ḥammāl would have abandoned it out of scrupulousness.” (3)
Al-Darāquṭnī said: “Ibn Ḥayyuwah narrated to us; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasā’ī informed us, saying, ‘Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me.’” Al-Darāquṭnī added: “The shaykh intended is al-Ḥammāl. He was called ‘the Porter’ because, it is said, he once carried a man on his back along the road to Mecca when the man could no longer walk. (4)
His son, Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, Muṭayyin, and ʿAlī al-Ghaḍā’irī all stated that he died in 243 AH.
His son further specified: on the nineteenth of Shawwāl.
Whoever claimed that he died in 249 AH was mistaken.
39 – Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū ʿImrān al-Bazzār, his son*
The Imām, the eminent ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative proof, the critic, and the hadith scholar of Iraq, Abū ʿImrān al-Bazzār.
He was born in 214 AH.