Hasan bin as-Sabaah bin Muhammad al-Bazzaar, Abu Ali al-Waasiti

Name:

الحسن بن الصباح بن محمد البزار ، أبو على الواسطى ثم البغدادى

Al-Hasan bin as-Sabaah bin Muhammad al-Bazzaar, Abu Ali al-Waasiti, later on Al-Baghdaadi

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

Death: 249 H in Baghdaad

Narrated by: Bukhaari, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi

Teachers: Ahmed bin Hanbal, Abu Tawbah ar-Rabee’ bin Naafi’, Sufyaan bin Uyaynah, Ali ibn al-Madeeni, Mu’ammal bin Ismaa’eel, Wakee’ bin al-Jarraah, and others.

Students: Al-Bukhaari, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi, Abu Ya’la al-Mawsali, Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Hanbal, Muhammad bin Ishaaq as-Siraaj and others.

Status: Thiqah

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

1-    Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Sadooq, he had an amazing magnificence in Baghdaad. Ahmed bin Hanbal used to uplift him due to his greatness, and respect”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: Vol. 3 T. 71]

2-    Imaam Abu Quraysh Muhammad bin Jumu’ah al-Haafidh said: “Al-Hasan bin As-Sabaah is from the greatest of Saaliheen”

[Taareekh Baghdaad: 7/341, Chain Saheeh]

3-    Imaam Bukhaari authenticated him by narrating from him in his Saheeh

[See, H. 45, 3321, 3566]

4-    Imaam Ibn Khuzaymah narrated from him in his Saheeh

[H. 1307, 1766]

5-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan narrated from him in his Saheeh

[H. 194, 319, 1274, 3034, 3894 etc]

Imaam Ibn Hibbaan also mentioned him in his book of Thiqah narrators.

[Kitaab ath-Thiqaat: 8/176 T. 12832]

6-    Imaam al-Haakim authenticated his hadeeth to be on the conditions of Shaykhayn

[Al-Mustadrak al-Haakim: H. 845, 2000]

And once he graded his hadeeth saying, “Saheeh ul-Isnaad”

[H. 7646]

7-    Imaam at-Tirmidhi authenticated his in his Sunan saying, “This hadeeth is Hasan Saheeh Ghareeb”

[H. 1810, 3691; Also See, H. 2680, 2829, 3662, 3664, 3753]

8-    Imaam Dhahabi said: “He is al-Imaam al-Haafidh al-Hujjah Shaykh ul-Islaam”

[Siyar A’laam al-Nabula: 12/192]

Imaam Dhahabi also said: “He is Thiqah”

[Al-Mughni: 1/161 T. 1418]

9-    Haafidh Ibn Hajar said: “He is Sadooq, makes mistakes”

[Taqreeb]

Haafidh Ibn Hajar also said: “He is declared Thiqah by the Jumhoor”

[Fath ul-Baari: 9/375 under H. 5266]

10-          Qaadhi Badr ud-Deen al-Aynee al-Hanafi said: “He is declared Thiqah by Jumhoor”

[Umdat ul-Qaari: 30/85]