196 – Abū Quraysh Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Khalaf al-Quhustānī*
The Imām, erudite scholar, and eminent ḥāfiẓ, Abū Quraysh Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Khalaf al-Quhustānī, nicknamed al-Aṣamm (“the Deaf”), was the author of several works.
He was born in the year “a few-and-twenty” after two hundred AH.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Muslim al-Quhustānī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī; Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ; Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ; Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān ibn Naḍlah; Muḥammad ibn Zunbur; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī; Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm; Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī; Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā; Salm ibn Junādah; Muḥammad ibn Sahl ibn ʿAskar; Salamah ibn Shabīb, and their contemporaries in Rayy, Kūfah, Baṣrah, and the Ḥijāz.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb al-Akhram; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ḥajjājī; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī; Abū Sahl al-Ṣuʿlūkī; Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bālūyah; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Anṣārī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, and many others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “Abū Quraysh was one of the precise ḥuffāẓ, with extensive hearing and wide-ranging travel. He compiled two Musnads—one arranged by narrators and the other by subject headings—and he authored separate collections of the ḥadith of the leading imams: Mālik, al-Thawrī, Shuʿbah, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, and others.”