and he narrated copiously and with excellence,
showing a mild inclination toward Shiʿism, though without excess.
Among those who transmitted from him were Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, Wahb ibn Masarrah, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm al-Ṣadafī, Khālid ibn Saʿd, and others.
Khālid ibn Saʿd said: “If truth were a man, it would be Ibn Ḥayyūn.”
Ibn al-Faradī stated in his History (1): “No one in al-Andalus before him was more insightful in hadith than he.”
I say: There were, before him, men such as Baqī ibn Makhlad and Ibn Waḍḍāḥ; yet Ibn al-Faradī would not have uttered this remark save that Ibn Ḥayyūn was a leading authority in memorization.
He died late in middle age, in 305 AH.
He was a contemporary of al-Ṭabarānī, but I have brought his notice forward here because he passed away before the prime season of narration. Indeed, he was one of the knights of hadith. As for al-Ṭabarānī (2), he lived on until 360 AH and became Shaykh al-Islām.
228 – As-Sinjī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab
The imām, the great ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab ibn