Abu Bakr al-Khatib (1) said: “Al-Firyabi, the judge of Dinawar, was one of the great repositories of knowledge.”

Al-Daraqutni stated: “Al-Firyabi stopped narrating hadith in Shawwal of the year 300 AH.”

The hadith master Abu ‘Ali al-Naysaburi said: “I entered Baghdad while al-Firyabi was still alive, but he had already refrained from narrating. We visited him more than once and would write in his presence, yet we regarded that as a cause for regret.”

I say: He acted admirably, for when he sensed a change in himself he exercised scrupulous caution and abandoned transmission.

Among his own teachers who reported from him was Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Azdi al-Basri.

Muslim ibn Muhammad—and a number of others—related to us from al-Qasim ibn ‘Ali:

“My father informed us; Abu al-Hasan ibn Qubays and Abu Mansur ibn Khayrun also informed us; they said:

Abu Bakr al-Khatib informed us; ‘Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Umar al-Muqri’ informed us; Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Shafi‘i narrated to us; Ibrahim ibn Ishaq al-Harbi narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Azdi narrated to us; Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Khurasani narrated to us; ‘Amr ibn Zurara narrated to us; Abu Junada narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Khaythama, from ‘Adi ibn Hatim, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘On the Day of Resurrection people will be brought toward Paradise; when they come near it and breathe in its fragrance …’—and he mentioned the remainder of the report (2).”