and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, as well as Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥram, and a great many others.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “Reliable.”
Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “Reliable and truthful; Abū Ḥātim nonetheless voiced some reservations about him.”
Al-Khaṭīb remarked: “He was intelligent and exacting, and he was famed for his commitment to the Sunnah (1).”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I heard from him in Mecca, and people criticised him (2).”
I (the author) say: the affair is settled—he is trustworthy and an imām.
Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī reported that he died in Ramaḍān of the year 280 AH.
124 – al-Hunaynī* Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā
The imām, ḥadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous authority: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā ibn Abī al-Hunayn al-Hunaynī al-Kūfī, compiler of a Musnad. A copy of the Musnad of Anas from his larger Musnad has reached us.
He heard ḥadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Abū Nuʿaym, al-Qaʿnabī, Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī, and Musaddad, and he transmitted the Muwaṭṭaʾ through al-Qaʿnabī.