ʿAwānah the ḥadith master, Abū al-Maymūn Rāshid, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Sukayn, and a host of others—the last of them being Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī.
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He used to invert reports and appropriate them; one may not cite him as proof when he is the sole narrator.”
I add: He died sometime after 280 AH.
142 – Abū al-ʿAynāʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Khallād al-Baṣrī *
The erudite litterateur and chronicler, Abū al-ʿAynāʾ Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Khallād al-Baṣrī—the blind, convivial court-companion.
He was born in Ahwāz and raised in Basra.
He studied under Abū ʿUbaydah, Abū Zayd, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, and al-Aṣmaʿī.
Among those who transmitted from him were: al-Ḥakīmī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī, Abū Bakr al-Adamī, Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Ibn Najīḥ, and others.
Al-Dārquṭnī remarked: “He is not strong.” (1)
Abū al-ʿAynāʾ lost his sight at the age of forty, and he used to dye his beard a reddish color. (2)