and Abū Ḥātim ibn Ḥibbān; Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh the Qur’an exegete; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khumayruwayh; and a number of the scholars of Herat.

He composed a substantial History and other works.

Al-Dāraqutnī judged him reliable.

Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī said, “He is unobjectionable.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim (1) remarked: “He was known as Ibn Khurram. He sent me a booklet of his narrations from Khālid ibn Hiyāj ibn Bisṭām that contained spurious reports, so I cannot tell whether the blame lies with him or with Khālid.”

I say: Rather, it is with Khālid, for he transmits peculiarities on the authority of his father, whereas al-Ḥusayn was a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ.

Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī dated his death to 301 AH, and it appears he had passed the age of ninety.

58 – al-Sāmī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harawī *

The imam, ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harawī.

He heard ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī and his circle in Kūfa; from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways and others in Medina; from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and his peers in Baghdad; and from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad—