and I will say: “He fabricated lies against Your Messenger and against the scholars.” (1)
As for Ismāʿīl al-Khuṭabī, he adopted a cooler attitude (2) and remarked, “He was reliable; I have never seen a gathering more crowded than his.”
Al-Kudaymī died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 286 AH. If his date of birth is as previously mentioned, he had lived for more than one hundred years.
Some of his high-level isnāds (ʿawālī) turn up in the transmissions of Ibn al-Bukhārī and the like.
140 – al-ʿAskari: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥarb
The Imām and ḥadith scholar, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥarb al-ʿAskari—the broker—author of the Musnad of Abū Hurayrah.
He narrated from al-Qaʿnabī, ʿĀrim, Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Musaddad, ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Lāḥiqī, Sahl ibn ʿUthmān, Abū Maʿmar al-Muqaʿd, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, Yaʿqūb ibn Kāsib, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĀʾisha, ʿAlī ibn Baḥr al-Qaṭṭān, and several others.
Among those who received hadith from him was Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Sahl ibn ʿUmar ibn Sahl ibn Baḥr al-ʿAskari—the teacher of the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym. Ibn Sahl related that he (Ibrāhīm) visited them in Basra in 282 AH.