Among those who transmitted from him were: al-Nasa’i—who cites him in his Sunan and pronounces him reliable—Abu ʿAwanah al-Isfarayini, Abu Bakr ibn Ziyad al-Naysaburi, Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Saʿid al-Harrani, Muhammad ibn al-Mundhir Shakkar, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Mattawayh, and others.
He was the foremost scholar and mufti of al-Raqqah in his day.
He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of the year 274 AH, while in his tenth decade—may Allah have mercy on him.
51 – Al-Wasiti, ʿAli ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd al-Majid *
The shaykh, hadith authority, and trustworthy narrator: Abu al-Husayn ʿAli ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd al-Majid al-Wasiti, a resident of Baghdad.
He reported hadith from Yazid ibn Harun, Wahb ibn Jarir, and many others.
Those who received hadith from him include Ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿUthman ibn al-Sammak, Abu Sahl al-ʿAttar, and Abu Bakr al-Najjād.
Al-Daraqutni judged him reliable.
He passed away in Ramadan of the year 274 AH.
Al-Bukhari said, “ʿAli narrated to us; Rawh narrated to us,” whereupon al-Hakim remarked, “This is the man.” (1)