Sunan ad-Darimi 629

Translation

✧ Isma'il b. Raja' used to gather the boys of the kuttab, narrating to them, and thereby he would memorize it.

Grades by grader

Narrators

1. 1
   Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ al-Zubaydī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); al-Azdī spoke against him without proofd. between 111 and 120 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيل بْن رَجَاء الزُّبَيْدِيّثقة ، تكلم فيه الأزدي بلا حجة
   كان
2. 2
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl

   truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيع
   أنبأنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 220 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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