Mahdi ibn Hafs مهدي بن حفص

Name: Mahdi ibn Hafs

Fame: Mahdi ibn Hafs al-Baghdadi

Kuniya: Abu Ahmad

Lineage: al-Baghdadi

Rank: Trustworthy

Lived in: Baghdad

Died Year: 223

Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: Shaykh who was in Baghdad

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Acceptable

al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Trustworthy

al-Dhahabi: Trustworthy

Muslim ibn al-Qasim al-Andalusi: Trustworthy

Authors of Tahrir Taqrib al-Tahdhib: Trustworthy, for a group of trustworthy narrators narrated from him, including Abu Dawud - and he only narrates from trustworthy narrators - and we do not know of a reason to lower him to this low rank