—the most distinguished transmission we possess from Ibn Abī Shaybah.
Ibn Hāniʾ said, “Ibn Qutaybah died in Rajab of the year 284 AH, and I attended his funeral.”
I (the author) add: He was probably past eighty years of age, and he was among the bearers of proof and those who trod the clear path—may Allah have mercy on him.
161 – Miqdām ibn Dāwūd ibn ʿĪsā ibn Talīd al-Ruʿaynī al-Miṣrī *
The jurist, erudite scholar, and ḥadith expert, Abū ʿAmr al-Ruʿaynī of Egypt.
He narrated from: his uncle ʿĪsā ibn Talīd, Asad ibn Mūsā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīra, Khālid ibn Nazzār al-Aylī, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUtbah al-Rāzī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Aṣbagh, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī said in al-Kunā: “He is not reliable.”
Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Kindī said: “He was a jurist and a muftī, but not commendable in transmission.”
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “Weak.”