I have not seen anyone more devout than him. Al-Khuraybī gave him precedence over Mālik. He died in the year two hundred and twenty-one. Abū Dāwūd narrated from him in the *Sunan* approximately three hundred and thirteen hadiths.

2. Musaddad ibn Musarhad ibn Musarbal al-Asadī al-Baṣrī, the imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative proof. Al-Bukhārī, al-Dhuhlī, Abū Ḥātim, and Abū Zurʿah al-Rāziyān narrated from him. Abū Zurʿah said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said to me: Musaddad is truthful, so whatever you have written from him, do not go beyond it. Abū Ḥātim, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy. He died in the year two hundred and twenty-eight. Abū Dāwūd narrated from him in the *Sunan* approximately five hundred and forty-one hadiths.

3. Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hudhalī al-Khallāl al-Ḥulwānī (and Ḥulwān is a town on the side of the mountains near Baghdad), resident of Mecca and one who stayed there in devotional retreat, the imam, the ḥāfiẓ, the truthful. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim narrated from him. Al-Nasāʾī, Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, and al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy. Al-Khalīlī said: He was likened to Aḥmad in his demeanor and piety. He died in the year two hundred and forty-two. Abū Dāwūd narrated from him in the *Sunan* approximately one hundred and twenty-nine hadiths.

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(1) Al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 16/136–143, and al-Dhahabī in *Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ* 10/257–264.
(2) Al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 27/443–448, and al-Dhahabī in *Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ* 10/591–595.
(3) Al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 6/259–263, and Ibn Ḥajar in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb* 1/406.