He was regarded as one of the reliable authorities (1). He died in 259 AH, and his narrations are included in al-Ismāʿīlī’s Ṣaḥīḥ.
187 – Qubbayṭah, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān al-Baṣrī
A ḥāfiẓ, meticulous scholar, and leading imam—Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān al-Baṣrī, who later settled in Egypt. He heard hadith from Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Yūsuf al-Tinnīsī, Abū Ṣāliḥ, and their peers. Those who transmitted from him include Imam Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, al-Ṭaḥāwī, and several others. Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus praised his memorisation and noted that he died in Egypt in 261 AH.
188 – al-Ḥārithī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Khālid
A truthful and trustworthy hadith scholar—Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Khālid al-Ḥārithī, of Kufa. He heard narrations from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī, Abū Usāmah, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, and Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn.