Al-Nasa’i said, “Trustworthy, reliable.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā al-Simsār remarked, “He was one of the eminent leaders of the Muslims.”
Another observed, “He was among the most intelligent people of his day and was endowed with virtue.”
I say: He passed away in the year 246 AH.
112 – Abū al-Taqī al-Yazanī, Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (D, S, Q)
The Imām, meticulous ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Taqī Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿImrān, al-Yazanī of Ḥimṣ.
He related hadith from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Abrash, Muḥammad ibn Ḥimyar, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasa’i, Ibn Mājah, his grandson Ḥusayn ibn Taqī ibn Hishām, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, and many more.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said, “He was precise in hadith.” (2)