- al-Sukkari, Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Khalid (Q)
The shaykh, jurist, scholar, and judge of Damascus, Abū al-Ḥasan—also known as Abū ʿAbd Allah—Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Khalid ibn Yazid al-Qurashi, al-ʿAbdari, al-Raqqi, better known as “al-Sukkari.”
He related hadith from Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr (both of them from Raqqa), Yaʿla ibn al-Ashdaq, Abū Isḥaq al-Fazari, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Baqiyyah, ʿIsa ibn Yunus, and many others.
He was a hadith scholar of proven accuracy.
Among those who transmitted from him are Ibn Majah, Muhammad ibn Saʿd, Jumahir al-Zamlakani, Abū al-ʿAbbas ibn Masruq, Abū Yaʿla al-Mawsili, Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Baghandi, Muhammad ibn Hisham ibn Mallas, and others.
Al-Daraqutni declared him trustworthy, and Abū Hatim said, “Reliable.” ⦗1⦘
Muhammad ibn al-Fayd said: “Ahmad ibn Abi Duʿad appointed Ismaʿil al-Sukkari to the judgeship of Damascus in the year 233 AH, and he remained in that post until the judiciary was taken over by …”