and al-Zubayrī, Suwayd b. Saʿīd, ʿAbd Allah b. Muʿāwiyah al-Jumahī, Muḥammad b. Rumḥ, Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. Numayr, Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah, Hishām b. ʿAmmār, Yazīd b. ʿAbd Allah al-Yamāmī, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Bishr b. Muʿādh al-ʿAqadī, Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah, Abū Ḥudhāfah al-Sahmī, Dāwūd b. Rushayd, Abū Khaythamah, ʿAbd Allah b. Dhakwān al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd Allah b. ʿĀmir b. Barrād, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ibrāhīm Duhaym, ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿĀṣim al-Hisanjānī ⦗1⦘, ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah, and a host of others whose names appear in his Sunan and in his other writings.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Abharī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad b. Rūḥ al-Baghdādī, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥakīm al-Madīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Qaṭṭān, Sulaymān b. Yazīd al-Fāmī, and others.
Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī said: “His father, Yazīd, was known as Mājah, and his client-affiliation was with Rabīʿah.”
Ibn Mājah himself related: “I presented this Sunan to Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī. After looking through it, he said, ‘I think that if this book reaches the people, these Jāmiʿ collections—or most of them—will become superfluous.’ He then added, ‘I do not believe there are even thirty hadiths in it whose isnāds are weak, or anything of that sort.’ ⦗2⦘
I say: Ibn Mājah was a ḥāfiẓ, a discerning critic, truthful, and widely learned, but