Isma'il ibn Sayf ibn 'Ata' إسماعيل بن سيف بن عطاء

Name: Isma'il ibn Sayf ibn 'Ata'

Fame: Isma'il ibn Sayf al-Basri

Kuniya: Abu Ishaq

Lineage: al-Basri

Rank: Weak in Hadith

Lived in: Basra

Abu Ahmad ibn 'Adi al-Jurjani: He narrated hadiths from trustworthy narrators but they are not preserved and he plagiarizes hadith

Abu Hatim al-Razi: Unknown

Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: Upright in hadith when he narrates from a trustworthy narrator

Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili: Weak

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Unknown

Al-Dhahabi: He was an elderly Sheikh

Abdan ibn Ahmad al-Ahwazi: They considered him weak