Musaddad bin Musarhad, Abu al-Hasan al-Basari

Name:

مُسَدَّدُ بنُ مُسَرْهَدِ بنِ مُسَرْبَلٍ الأَسَدِيُّ أَبُو الحَسَنِ، البَصْرِيُّ

Musaddad bin Musarhad bin Musarbal al-Asdi, Abu al-Hasan al-Basari

Tabaqah: 10 – Major narrator among those who narrated from Taba Taabi’een

Death: 228 H

Narrated by: Bukhaari – Abu Dawood – Tirmidhi – Nasaa’ee

Teachers: Hammaad bin Zayd, Sufyaan ibn Uyaynah, Fudayl bin Ayyaadh, Abu Mu’aawiyah ad-Dareer, Hushaym bin Basheer, Wakee’ ibn al-Jarraah, Yahya al-Qattaan, and many others.

Students: Bukhaari, Abu Dawood, Ibraaheem bin Ya’qoob al-Juzjaani, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Ijlee, Muhammad bin Yahya al-Dhuhali, Ya’qoob bin Sufyaan al-Faarsi, Ya’qoob bin Shaybah as-Sadoosi, Abu Haatim ar-Raazi, Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi and many others.

Status: Thiqah Haafidh

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

1-    Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal said: “He is Sudooq…”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 1998, Chain Saheeh]

Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal also said: “Musaddad is Thiqah”

[Muqaddimah al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 344]

2-    Imaam Bukhaari narrated from Musaddad in his Saheeh in more than 300 narrations (about 390).

3-    Imaam Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Saalih, Abu al-Hasan al-Ijlee said: “He is Thiqah”

[Thiqaat al-Ijlee: 1/425]

4-    Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Thiqah”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 8/438]

5-    Imaam Ibn Khuzaymah took evidence from Musaddad in his Saheeh

[See, H # 2083, 2095]

6-    Imaam al-Haakim authenticated many of the narrations of Musaddad to be on the conditions of Shaykhayn or one of them.

[See, Mustadrak al-Haakim: H # 2….. etc]

He also said about of one of his narrations: “All its narrators are Thiqaat”

[H # 44]

7-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan mentioned him among the Thiqah narrators

[Thiqaat: 16001]

Imaam Ibn Hibbaan also narrated many narrations from Musaddad in his Saheeh

[See, H. 49, 67…. etc]

8-    Imaam ad-Daaraqutni said: “He is Thiqah Haafidh”

[Sunan ad-Daaraqutni: 4/75]

9-    Haafidh Abu Ali al-Jiyaani said: “He is Thiqah”

[Tasmiyah Shuyookh Abi Dawood: P. 94]

10-          Haafidh al-Busayri said about one his narrations that: “All the narrators of this chain are Thiqaat”

[Itthaaf al-Khayrah by al-Busayri: 1/350]

11-          Imaam Dhahabi said: “He is al-Imaam al-Haafidh al-Hujjah… one of the experts of Hadeeth”

[Siyar A’laam al-Nabula: 10/591]

12-          Haafidh Ibn Hajar said in Tahdheeb at-Tahdheeb: “Ibn Qaani’ said that he is Thiqah. And Ibn Adee said that it is said, he is the first person to author Al-Musnad in Basrah”

[10/109]

And Ibn Hajar said in Taqreeb at-Tahdheeb: “He is Thiqah Haafidh”

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