He also narrated from ʿĀʾishah, Ibn ʿAbbās, and Ibn ʿUmar. Those who reported from him include Ibn Jurayj, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and al-Awzāʿī. Abū Ḥātim deemed him reliable. He passed away in 113 AH, in Mecca.
58 — ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī al-Madhḥijī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)
An imam and authoritative proof, known by the teknonym Abū ʿAbd Allāh. He witnessed the pre-Islamic era, embraced Islam during the Prophet’s lifetime, travelled to Syria with Muʿādh ibn Jabal, and later settled in Kūfa.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Muʿādh, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, and others. Those who narrated from him include al-Shaʿbī, Abū Isḥāq, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, and many more.
Abū Isḥāq—through ʿAmr ibn Maymūn—from Muʿādh, said:
“I was riding behind the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a donkey called ʿUfayr.” (1)
Aḥmad records in the Musnad: “Al-Walīd narrated to us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from Ḥassān ibn…"