He narrated hadith from his uncle, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, and from ʿUthmān, Saʿīd ibn Zayd, and Ibn ʿAbbās.
Those who transmitted from him include Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Zuhrī, Abū al-Zinād, and others.
He was noble, open-handed, an authoritative source, an imam.
He was known as Ṭalḥah al-Nadā (Ṭalḥah of Generosity).
He died in the year 99 AH.
67 – Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mull * (ʿ)
The imam, a decisive authority, the leading shaykh of his time: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mull—some said Ibn Malī—ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAdī, of Basra.
A mukhaḍram and a centenarian, he lived through both the pre-Islamic era and Islam.
He campaigned during the caliphate of ʿUmar and took part in subsequent expeditions.
He related hadith from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Bilāl, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, Salmān al-Fārisī, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, Usāmah ibn Zayd, Saʿīd ibn Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, and many others.
Those who took hadith from him include Qatādah, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, and ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr.