Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “He is unobjectionable.”

Al-Khaṭīb relates—from al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ṭālib, from Yūsuf al-Qawwās—that Ismāʿīl al-Khaṭīb said:

“I asked Abū Qabīṣah al-Ḍabbī—who was one of the most accomplished Qur’an teachers we ever met—about the greatest amount he had recited in a single day; he was famed for the speed of his recitation. At first he refused to tell me, but I persisted until he said, ‘On one summer day I completed four full readings of the Qur’an, and in the fifth I reached Sūrah Barāʾah when the call to the ʿAṣr prayer was given (1).’”

He added, “He was a man of true integrity (2), and he passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 282 AH.”

240 – Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rajāʾ ibn al-Sindī al-Isfarāʾīnī *
The imam, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Isfarāʾīnī, author of al-Ṣaḥīḥ, a collection arranged on the pattern of Muslim’s work.

He heard ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, and their contemporaries. He traveled extensively and became a master in this field.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū ʿAwana the ḥāfiẓ, Ibn al-Sharqī, Ibn al-Akhram, Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad the jurist, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, and others.

Al-Ḥākim mentioned him, saying, “He was devout, reliable, and a leading figure of his age; he heard from…"