128 – Aḥmad ibn Budayl ibn Quraysh ibn Budayr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Yāmī (T, Q (1))

He was the judge of Kūfah and later of Hamadhān. A ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), Abū Jaʿfar was a learned, devout, distinguished, and long-lived scholar.

He related hadiths from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUyaynah, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, al-Muḥāribī, Wakīʿ, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār al-Hamadhānī—the pupil of Ibn Mājah—Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAmrūs, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the agent of Abū Sakhrah (2), Ḥājib al-Farghānī, ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā the vizier, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zaʿfarānī of Qulaylah, and others.

Ibn ʿAdī said: “He reported hadiths that were rejected, yet his narrations are still written down despite their weakness.”

Al-Dāraqutnī said: “He is somewhat lenient.”

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I was never able to hear from him directly, but his standing is one of truthfulness.” (3)