Mandah; and whoever claimed that it occurred in the year nineteen was mistaken.
299 – Ibn Fīl, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bālisī *
The shaykh, the imam, the ḥadith scholar, the itinerant seeker—Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Fīl al-Bālisī, the leading imam of Antioch.
He set out on his travels after 240 AH.
He heard from Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ; Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwayn; Mālik ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥimṣī; Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Makkī; ʿUqbah ibn Mukram; Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā; Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī; Muʾammal ibn Ihāb; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bazzī; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī; Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Khaṭmī; Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maṣṣīṣī, and others of their rank.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Shākir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Maṣṣīṣī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, the judge of Adana ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bundār, and many others.
I know of no criticism against him. He left a well-known fascicle that contains some singular reports.
He died in one of the teen years after 300 AH, at nearly ninety years of age.
His father (1) was also a ḥadith scholar; he narrated from Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī, and Abū