245 – Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Musallam, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Miṣṣīṣī (s)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, and prolific author, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Miṣṣīṣī.
He was born in the early 180s AH.
He heard ḥadith from Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad al-Aʿwar, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqasānī (1), ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣrī, Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, al-Haytham ibn Jamīl, Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak al-Ṣūrī, and several others.
Among those who reported from him are al-Nasāʾī—who said, “reliable, a ḥāfiẓ”—Abū ʿAwānah, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣafwah, Muḥammad ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Jīzī, and many others.
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “Musallam—with the lām doubled—: Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Musallam; a number of scholars narrated to us from him.”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “He was trustworthy and very truthful.” (2)
(*) al-Jarh wa al-Tadil 9/224; al-Lubab 3/221; Tahdhib al-Kamal, nos. 1558–1559; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/190/1; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 2/583–584; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 11/414–415; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 259; Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 439; Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/162.
(1) Pronounced with a fatha on both qaf letters and a silent ra between them: this nisba refers to Qarqisya, a town in the Jazira region, six parasangs from Rahbat Malik ibn Tawq and close to Raqqa. Al-Samani notes that the nisba appears both with and without the letter nun, though the form that retains the nun is more widely used and has become the norm.
Muhammad ibn Musab—Abu Abd Allah—was a hadith memoriser (hafiz) but committed many errors; some scholars even deemed his reports munkar (unacceptable). He died in 208/823. See al-Ansab 10/106.
(2) Al-Jarh wa al-Tadil 9/224; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 11/415, which also records: “He said …”