I say: He transmitted reports from ʿUmar, Abū Ṭalḥah, Abū Ayyūb, and others. Those who narrated from him include al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd—though he belonged to the earlier generation—ʿUrwah, al-Aʿraj, al-Zuhrī, a number of others, and his own son Muḥammad. Ibn Maʿīn judged him reliable. Ibn Saʿd (1) said: “He died in 80 AH, in Medina, at the age of seventy-eight.”

4 – ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Qays al-Tamīmī al-ʿAnbarī al-Baṣrī *
The exemplar, the saintly devotee, the ascetic; Abū ʿAbd Allāh—some say Abū ʿAmr—al-Tamīmī, al-ʿAnbarī, from Basra.

He narrated from ʿUmar and Salmān. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥasan, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥublī, and others; yet he seldom related hadith.

Al-ʿIjli said: “He was trustworthy, one of the devout worshippers among the Successors.” Kaʿb al-Aḥbār once saw him and remarked, “This is the monk of this community.”

Abū ʿUbayd (2), in his work on the variant Qurʾānic readings, stated: “ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh—known as Ibn ʿAbd Qays—used to instruct the people in the recitation of the Qurʾān.”

ʿAbbād related to us—from Yūnus—from al-Ḥasan—that ʿĀmir would say, “Whom shall I teach?” People would then come to him, whereupon he would teach them the Qurʾān; after that he would rise and pray until the ẓuhr (noon) prayer, then he would pray