and from him transmitted Muhammad ibn Najih, Ahmad ibn Khuzaymah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ishaq al-Khurasani, Ibn Qaniʿ, and Ahmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Hamdan al-Saqati (1).
Ibn Abi Hatim said, “He sent me a small collection of his narrations, and he was truthful” (2). Al-Daraqutni declared him reliable. He d. 276 AH, and several authorities placed his death in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of that year.
86 – Abu Muʿin al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Razi *
The hadith master and imam, al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Razi. He heard hadith from Saʿid ibn Abi Maryam, Abu Salamah Musa ibn Ismaʿil, Abu Tawbah, Ahmad ibn Yunus, Nuʿaym ibn Hammad, Yahya ibn Maʿin, and others of their rank. He also received the Muwattaʾ from Yahya ibn Bukayr.
Among those who narrated from him are ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim, Abu Nuʿaym ibn ʿAddi, Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Muhammadaʾbadi, Ahmad ibn Qashmard, Yusuf ibn Ibrahim al-Hamadhani, Hafs ibn ʿUmar al-Ardabili, and many others.
Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Hakim said, “He was among the foremost preservers of hadith.” Ibn Abi Hatim referred to him as we have done, while Abu Ahmad al-Hakim, in al-Kuna (3), called him Muhammad ibn al-Husayn—the first designation is the sounder.