Al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy (1) and said, “He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 302 AH.”
100 – Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthannā al-Tamīmī *
Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthannā b. Yaḥyā b. ʿĪsā b. Hilāl al-Tamīmī, al-Mawṣilī, the hadith master of Mosul and the author of the Musnad and the Muʿjam.
He was born on the third of Shawwāl in 210 AH, which makes him five years older than al-Nasāʾī and endowed with chains of transmission higher than his.
He met the leading authorities and, while still young, travelled to the major centers of learning—first under the care of his father and his maternal uncle Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī al-Muthannā, and later on the strength of his own lofty ambition.
He received ḥadiths from: Aḥmad b. Ḥātim al-Ṭawīl; Aḥmad b. Jamīl; Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Tustarī; Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī; Aḥmad b. Manīʿ; Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb; Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī; Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīlī, the companion of Salām b. Abī Muṭīʿ; Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArʿarah; Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī; Ibrāhīm b. Ziyād Sabalān; Isḥāq b. Abī Isrāʾīl; Isḥāq b. Mūsā al-Khaṭmī; Isḥāq b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṭalqānī; Abū Muʿammar Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Hudhalī; and Abū—