75 – Aḥmad ibn al-Muqdam ibn Sulaymān ibn Ashʿath al-ʿIjlī (Kh, T, S, Q)
The imam, the meticulous scholar, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Ashʿath al-ʿIjlī, from Basra.
He heard ḥadith from: Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Ḥazm ibn Abī Ḥazm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Madīnī, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, ʿAththām ibn ʿAlī, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, al-Baghawī, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawzajānī, the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Khuzaymah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, and many others.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy.” (1)
Ibn Khuzaymah said, “He was a ḥadith scholar.” (2)
Abū Ḥātim said, “He occupies the rank of truthfulness.” (3)
Abū al-Ashʿath stated, “I was born two years before the death of al-Manṣūr.”
Abū Dāwūd remarked, “I do not relate from him; he used to teach them frivolity. He lived in Basra.”