Amr bin Haashim al-Bayrooti

Name:

عَمْرو بن هاشم البيروتي

Amr bin Haashim al-Bayrooti

Tabaqah: 9 – From Minor Taba Taabi’een

Narrated by: Ibn Maajah

Teachers: Idrees bin Ziyaad al-Alhaani, Sulemaan bin Abi Kareemah, Abdullah bin Lahee’ah, Abdur Rahmaan bin Amr al-Awzaa’ee, Muhammad bin Sulemaan bin Abi Kareemah, Muhammad bin Shu’ayb bin Shaaboor, Muhammad bin Ajlaan, Haql bin Ziyaad, Al-Haytham bin Humayd, Abu Khaalid al-Ahmar

Students: Ahmed bin Ibraaheem bin Moosa al-Masaahifi, Ahmed bin Ibraaheem bin Hishaam bin Mallaas al-Numayri, Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Yahya bin Hamzah al-Hadrami, Ishaaq bin Ismaa’eel bin Abdul A’la al-Aylee, Ismaa’eel bin Ahmed bin Abdul Mu’min, Abu Sulaym Ismaa’eel bin Hisn bin Hisaan al-Qurashi al-Jubaylee, Baqiyyah bin al-Waleed (and he was elder than him), Bakr bin Sahl al-Dimyaati, Thaabit bin Nu’aym Al-Hawji al-Asqalaani, Zuhayr bin Abbaad Al-Ruwaasi, Sa’eed bin Yazeed bin Ma’yoof al-Hajoori, Al-Abbaas bin al-Waleed al-Khallaal, Abu Saalih Abdullah bin Saalih al-Misri, Abu Zuhayr Abdul Majeed bin Ibraaheem al-Dimyaati, Abu Zur’ah Ubaydullah bin Abdul Kareem, Ubayd bin Ribaah al-Aylee, Uthmaan bin Yahya al-Qarqisaani, Assaam bin Rawwaad bin al-Jarraah, Ali bin Ma’bad bin Shaddaad al-Raqi, Ali bin Ma’bad bin Nooh al-Misri, Muhammad bin Awf at-Taa’ee al-Himsi, Muhammad bin Muslim bin Waarah ar-Raazi, Muhammad bin Maymoon al-Khayyaat al-Makki, Moosa bin Sahl al-Ramli, Haaroon bin Imraan bin Abi Jameel, Haashim bin Amr bin Haashim al-Bayrooti (his son), Al-Haytham bin Marwaan bin al-Haytham bin Imraan al-Anasi, Al-Wazeer bin al-Qaasim al-Jubaylee.

Status: Thiqah, Hasan ul-Hadeeth

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

Those who praised him:

1-    Imaam Ibn Adee said: “There is nothing wrong in him”

[Al-Kaamil: 4/250 under the biography of Sulemaan bin Abi Kareemah]

2-    Imaam Ibn Khuzaymah authenticated his hadeeth in his Saheeh

[H. 738, 1682]

3-    Imaam Zayaa al-Maqdisi authenticated his hadeeth in al-Mukhtaarah by narrating from him

[H. 1532, 1917, 12/346]

4-    Haafidh al-Mundhiri authenticated his hadeeth saying: “Its chain is connected and its narrators are Thiqaat, and Amr bin Haashim al-Bayrooti is Thiqah; there is a little discussion on him but it does not effect him”

[Al-Targheeb wal Tarheeb: 3/60 H. 3075]

5-    Imaam Dhahabi said: “He is Sadooq and He has been declared Thiqah…”

[Meezaan al-I’tidaal: 3/290; Al-Mughni: 2/491]

6-    Haafidh Noor ud-Deen al-Haythami said: “The Majority has done his Tawtheeq”

[Majma az-Zawaaid: 1/26]

7-    Haafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani said: “He is Sadooq, makes mistakes”

[Taqreeb: 5127]

Those who criticized him:

1-    Imaam Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi mentioned him in ad-Du’afa

[1/123]

2-    Imaam Ibn Abi Haatim said, I asked Muhammad bin Muslim (bin Waarah ar-Raazi) about him, so he said: “I wrote (narrations) from him. He is Qaleel ul-Hadeeth.” (Ibn Abi Haatim) said: “I asked: What is his condition?” He said: “He is nothing: He was young when he wrote from Al-Awzaa’ee”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 6/ T. 1479]

3-    Imaam Abu Ja’far al-Ukaylee mentioned him in ad-Du’afa and said: “He is Majhool ul-Naql, and his hadeeth is not followed”

[P. 157]