was left for him by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/1/188). Al-Khaṭīb included his biography in al-Tārīkh (13/100), relating from a number of hadith masters who narrated from him, including Abū Yaḥyā Ṣāʿiqah—namely Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, who narrates from him here—and the hadith master Mūsā ibn Hārūn, who said:

“He died in the year 240 AH, and I wrote down hadith from him in Baghdad.”

Al-Khaṭīb said:

“He was trustworthy.”

Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt (9/198) and said:

“He would sometimes err.”

Ibn Ḥibbān narrated several hadiths from him in his Ṣaḥīḥ; their numbers are 441, 4434, 5693, and 7340 (al-Iḥsān). One of them has already appeared as no. 2801. He also has another hadith recorded by al-Bazzār (2/86/1265), whose chain al-Ḥāfiẓ graded good. Al-Haythamī did not identify him in either of those two reports; whereas here he said (2/285):

“Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ likewise said so in al-Fatḥ (2/554).

Accordingly, the chain of transmission is sound. Al-Mundhirī likewise said so (2/212/37).

It also has a corroborating narration: al-Ṭaḥāwī recorded it in Sharḥ al-Maʿānī (1/208), and al-Dāraquṭnī in his Sunan (1/409/11), through two other routes from Makhlad ibn Ḥusayn, in an abbreviated form with the wording: