289 – Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Samāʿah al-Ḥaḍramī *
Another transmitter from Abū Nuʿaym. Among those who received ḥadith from him are al-Jiʿābī, al-Ismāʿīlī, al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥurafī, and a number of others. His standing was sounder than that of al-Qattāt. Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “He is not strong.”
290 – Ibn al-Imām, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Rabaʿī ** (s (1))
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and reliable authority, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Rabaʿī, a Ḥanafī from Baghdad known as “Ibn al-Imām,” later settled in Damietta. He heard ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, and their contemporaries. Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī in his Sunan—who said, “He is reliable”—as well as Abū ʿAlī ibn Hārūn, Ibn ʿAdī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh, Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī, and others. He passed away on the Day of ʿĪd al-Naḥr, in 300 AH.