and al-ʿAdaniyy; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥakīm; Muḥammad ibn Jahḍam; Ḥibbān ibn Hilāl; Abū al-Walīd; Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah; Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm; ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā; ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān; and a great many others. He was counted among the storehouses of knowledge.
Hadith was transmitted from him by: Abū Dāwūd, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Zurʿah, Muslim and al-Bukhārī in works other than their two Ṣaḥīḥs, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Ibn Khuzaymah, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Shaybānī, and many others.
Abū ʿAmr al-Mustamlī said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb say, “In my estimation, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī is reliable and truthful.”
Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sukkarī relate from Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Rāwasānī (1) who said:
“ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī was found dead a week later in one of the village mosques, in the year 267 AH.”
I also heard Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb on more than one occasion say:
“ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan was killed as a martyr in the district of Arghiyān (2), on his estate.”
He went on to say: “The reason was that he had reprimanded the local official; when night fell, the man ordered that ʿAlī be taken into a hay-store, then he set the straw alight. ʿAlī died from the smoke, and when he was later found his eyes had been eaten by ants. (3)”