Hajjaj ibn Muhammad

Hajjaj b. Muhammad, the memoriser Abu Muhammad al-Missisi the one-eyed, among the firmest transmitters, client of Sulayman b. Mujalid the client of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur; he heard Ibn Jurayj, Umar b. Dharr, and Khurayz b. Uthman and their layer, while Ahmad, al-Za'farani, Hilal b. al-Ala', and Yusuf b. Sa'id b. Muslim narrated from him. ¹

Abu Dawud said "it reached me that Ibn Ma'in wrote some fifty thousand hadiths from him", Ibn Ma'in called him "the most reliable of Ibn Jurayj's companions", Ahmad said "no one was more exact, more sound in hadith, or more precise with the letters", Mu'alla al-Razi said "I saw the companions of Ibn Jurayj at Basra and none was more reliable than al-Hajjaj", and Ibrahim al-Khushk said "Hajjaj b. Muhammad asleep is more reliable than Abd al-Razzaq awake". Ibn Sa'd says he moved with his family to Masisa and stayed sixty years, then came to Baghdad on an errand — he was reliable and truthful in narration, though he had declined in his last years after returning to Baghdad. ¹

He died in Rabi' al-Awwal of 206 AH. ¹