It was narrated that Mutarrif bin `Abdullah said:
`Imran bin Husain said to me: 'We performed Tamattu` with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).' Abu Abdur-Rahman (An-Nasa'i) said: There are three (named) Isma`il bin Muslim; this is one of them, and there is no harm in him. And Shaikh Isma`il bin Muslim who reports from Abu Tufail, there is no harm in him. And Isma`il bin Muslim who reports from Az-Zuhri and Al-Hasan, he is abandoned in Hadith.