are, in our estimation, the most reliable.”
He replied, “I will not narrate.”
Then he said to them, “You ask me to relate ḥadīth while there are eight hundred traditionists in Baghdad, every one of them the equal of my teachers! I will not do it.”
Consequently, he did not transmit a single report to them.
139 – al-Kudaymī, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Mūsā * (d (1))
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the senior scholar of great age: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Mūsā ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿUbayd ibn Rabīʿah ibn Kudaym al-Qurashī, al-Sāmī, al-Kudaymī, al-Baṣrī—classified as weak.
He was born in 183 AH; some say 185 AH.
He was the stepson of Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, and through that connection he was able, while still very young, to hear from the senior scholars.
He narrated from: Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, ʿAbd Allāh al-Khuraybī, Azhar al-Sammān, Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Abū ʿĀṣim, al-Aṣmaʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥammād al-Shuʿaythī, al-Ḥumaydī, Abū Nuʿaym, and many others.
From him transmitted: Abū Bakr ibn al-Anbārī, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, and Abū Bakr.