He narrated from: Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā al-ʿAnazī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Miswar; Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd al-Jahdarī; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Muqawwam; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-ʿAṭṭār; and others of their rank from among the pupils of Ibn ʿUyaynah and Wakīʿ.
Hadith were transmitted from him by: al-Nasāʾī—in his Sunan, though al-Nasāʾī was the elder of the two—; Ibn Qāniʿ; al-Ṭabarānī; Muẓaffar ibn Yaḥyā; and a number of others.
He was commended by Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī.
Al-Burqānī said: Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī narrated to us, saying:
“It is related that Abū al-Ādhān had a long-standing dispute with a Jew—or perhaps someone else. He said to him, ‘Place your hand and mine in the fire; the one who is in the right will find that his hand does not burn.’ It is reported that his own hand remained unharmed, whereas the Jew’s hand was burnt.”
Abū al-Ādhān died in 290 AH, at the age of sixty-three.
42 – Qirṭima, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī
The ḥāfiẓ and distinguished master: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, known as Qirṭima.
He heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, al-Zaʿfarānī, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā.
He undertook extensive journeys, possessed an extraordinary memory, yet narrated only rarely.
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim said, “I heard Ibn ʿUqda say: ‘I heard Ibn Yamān…’”