Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbd Allāh?’
We replied, ‘The first one.’
He said, ‘Al-Aʿmash is merely a shaykh, and Abū Wāʾil is a shaykh, whereas Sufyān is a jurist, Manṣūr is a jurist, Ibrāhīm is a jurist, and ʿAlqamah is a jurist. A ḥadith that circulates among jurists is better than one that merely passes between shaykhs.’
I said, ‘Even so, al-Aʿmash and his shaykh possessed jurisprudential insight, knowledge, and stature.’
Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād said: ‘ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 255 AH.’ (1)
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad informed us, saying:
Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—that is, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim ibn Ḥayyān—narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from Qatādah, from Anas, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much.’ (2)
127 – al-Bajali, Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham ibn Khālid *
The ḥāfiẓ and traditionist, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajali, a Kufan who later resided in Bukhara.