Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim said, “I heard Ibn Jawṣā remark, ‘I compared notes with Abū Isḥāq al-Barallusī, and he was truly one of the receptacles of ḥadith,’ after which he related an anecdote.”

Abū Isḥāq’s father was a Kufan, while he himself was born in Ṣūr (Tyre). Another report states that he died in 272 AH.

190 – al-Azraq, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj ibn Maḥmūd
The ḥadith transmitter, scholar, and musnid: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj ibn Maḥmūd al-Azraq al-Baghdādī.

He narrated from Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad al-Aʿwar, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kināsah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr al-Sahmī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqisānī, al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir Shādhān, Yūnus ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib, Kathīr ibn Hishām, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥabīṭī, Khalaf ibn Tamīm, and a number of others.

Those who reported from him include ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭastī, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Najīḥ, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Khallād al-ʿAṭṭār, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said, “I heard al-Dāraquṭnī declare, ‘There is no harm in him. He was one of the associates of Ḥusayn al-Karābīsī, though some criticize his creed.’”

Al-Khaṭīb added, “As for his narrations, they are sound.” (1)