Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Salama al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd, Ḥāmid al-Raffāʾ, and others.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad said, “He is trustworthy.”

Al-Sulaymānī remarked, “He requires further scrutiny.”

I (the author) say: he is hinting that the man was an adherent of raʾy (personal reasoning) (1).

He died in 284 AH.

184 – Aḥmad ibn Aṣram ibn Khuzayma ibn ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī *

A descendant of Ḥassān, the son of the Companion ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal al-Muzanī; known as al-Mughaffalī, originally from Basra and later resident in Hamadhān.

He transmitted ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Ibn Maʿīn, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, al-Qawārīrī, Surayj, Abū Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī, and several others.

Among those who reported from him were Abū ʿAwāna in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Qāsim ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿUqaylī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Marwān al-Dimashqī, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, and others.

Abū Bakr al-Khallāl judged him reliable and said, “Abū Bakr al-Marwadī narrated to us from him.”