Among the authored collections and Qur’anic commentaries it reached us that Ibrāhīm had read them before the year seventy, yet he himself told me that he was born in the year seventy. I also heard al-Qāsim accuse him of fabrication, in addition to his involvement in the enterprises of the tyrants (1).
4 – al-Raffāʾ, Abū ʿAlī Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Harawī, known as al-Raffāʾ.
A shaykh, an imam, a truthful traditionist, and a prominent preacher.
He studied under: ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yashkurī, Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīra al-Hamadhānī al-Sukkari, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ashajj, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Bajalī, Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī, and many others.
His name became well-known, his narrations spread, and he possessed insight, understanding, and broad learning—though others were more accurate than he in memorization and more proficient in the science. In Herat he was regarded as the last link to the loftiest chains of transmission.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim; the judge Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jārūdī; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār the preacher; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dabbās; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān; Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī; and others.
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī selected narrations from him in Baghdad, and al-Khaṭīb and others declared him reliable.