and al-Fasawi, Ibn Abi Dunya, Ibrahim al-Harbi, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Marwazi, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ṣaʿid, the judge al-Mahamili, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Baghundi, and a host of others.
ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: My father asked me, “Have you written down the hadith of ʿUbayd Allah, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar: ‘When we washed the deceased, some of us would perform a full bath afterwards and some of us would not’?” I replied, “No.” He said, “In al-Mukharrim there is a young man called Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah who transmits it from Abu Hisham al-Makhzumi, from Wuhaib, so take it down from him.” (1)
Abu Bakr al-Baghundi remarked: “Al-Mukharrimi was a ḥāfiẓ, precise in what he recorded.”
Ibn ʿUqda said: I heard Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Nasr say, “Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Mukharrimi was one of the reliable, exacting ḥuffāẓ.”
Ibn Abi Hatim stated: “My father wrote from him, and he is trustworthy (thiqa), truthful; my father was asked about him and declared him reliable.” (2)
Al-Nasaʾi said: “Reliable.” (3)
Al-Daraqutni said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ, trustworthy.” (4)