, Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, the judge al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and a great many others.
ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd said, “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr held him in great esteem.” (1)
Al-Nasāʾī and others declared him reliable. (2)
I say: He died in Rajab 258 AH, having lived past ninety.
I read aloud before ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, the jurist: Imām ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad informed you in the year 611 AH; he told us that Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī told us; that Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Naṣr ibn Aḥmad told us; that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh told us; that Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī dictated to us; that Hārūn ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; that Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar narrated to us, from Saʿd ibn Ṭāriq, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfa—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Every act of kindness is charity. Allah is the Maker of every maker and of what he makes. And the last saying that the people of jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic ignorance) still clung to from prophetic speech was: ‘If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.’” (3)
It was recorded by Muslim.