As for Abū Mushir, he said, “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm is the foremost of the Successors; he lived in Palestine.”
It was further said that the great majority of the Successors in Syria learned jurisprudence from him. He was truthful, virtuous, and of high standing.
He and Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh died around the same time. Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī and Shabāb (1) stated that he passed away in the year 78 AH.
11 – Kathīr ibn Murrah Abū Shajarah al-Ḥaḍramī * (M, 4)
The imam, the authoritative ḥujjah, Abū Shajarah al-Ḥaḍramī, al-Ruhāwī, the Syrian from Ḥimṣ, who walked with a limp. He was also called Abū al-Qāsim.
He transmitted mursal reports traced back to the Prophet ﷺ.
He related ḥadith from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Tamīm al-Dārī, ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, ʿAwf ibn Mālik, Abū al-Dardāʾ, Nuʿaym ibn Hammār, Abū Hurayrah, ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, Abū Fāṭimah al-Azdī, Shuraḥbīl ibn al-Simṭ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿUmar, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Zāhiriyyah Hudayr ibn Kurayb, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī ʿUrayb, Makḥūl, Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Luqmān ibn ʿĀmir, Naṣr ibn ʿAlqamah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾidh, and others.
Zayd ibn Wāqid also reported from him in mursal form.
Ibn Saʿd, Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī, and others declared him reliable. Ibn Khirāsh said, “He is trustworthy,” while al-Nasāʾī commented, “There is no harm in him.”
Abū Ṣāliḥ, transmitting from al-Layth, said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb told me that ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān wrote to Kathīr ibn Murrah—who had met in Ḥimṣ seventy participants of Badr—
and he said: