then ask those who recite the Book that was revealed before you” (Yunus 10:94). They both said: He neither doubted, nor did he ask. (1)
63 – ʿAbd al-Ḥamid b. ʿIṣām, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jurjānī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable truth-teller, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jurjānī, who settled in Hamadhan.
He heard ḥadith from: Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah, Yazīd b. Hārūn, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, al-ʿAqadī, Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir, Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafarī, and others of their rank.
Those who transmitted from him include: Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd Allah al-Karābīsī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aws, Abū Ḥātim, and others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: I reached Hamadhan while he was still alive, but I was not granted the opportunity to hear from him.
My father said: He is trustworthy. (2)
Ṣāliḥ b. Aḥmad said: The following narrated from him: al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī, Ibrāhīm b. ʿAmrūs, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAzūn, and Aḥmad b. Muḥammad; and I heard al-Qāsim b. Abī Ṣāliḥ say:
I heard Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥusayn say: No one whom al-Jurjānī met was his equal.
Ibrāhīm also said: I am not like Yankamir (3); that man is al-Jurjānī. And I saw in—