ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Asad al-Qurtubi; Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn Allah; and the judge Abū ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mufarrij.
Ibn Ḥazm used to commend his abridged Ṣaḥīḥ, though it contains a number of singular reports.
He passed away in Muḥarram of 353 AH.
His narrations are rare in our lands and difficult to obtain except by travelling to where they are held.
Ahmad ibn Salamah the Qurʾān-reciter wrote to me, reporting from Muhammad ibn Ḥamd, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mawṣilī; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad the ḥadīth master informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Mālikī narrated to us; Abū ʿAlī Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān the ḥadīth master told us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿĪsā related to us; Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl reported to us; Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muslim ibn Hurmuz narrated to us, from Saʿīd and Muhammad the sons of ʿUbayd, from Abū Ḥātim—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “When someone whose religion and character you are pleased with comes to you seeking marriage, then marry him. If you do not, there will be tribulation in the land and widespread corruption.” (1)
Abū ʿAlī said: This Abū Ḥātim is a Companion, and he transmitted nothing other than this hadith.
Among those who died in that same year was the Musnid of Isfahān, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn