Abu Ḥātim (1) said, “He was reliable,” and he was the spokesman-headman of his clan.

Abu Nuʿaym relates: Abu Ṭālūt ʿAbd al-Salām told us, “I saw Abu ʿUthmān al-Nahdī serving as a police officer.”

Al-Madāʾinī, Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ, and Ibn Maʿīn all state that he died in the year 100 AH. Abu Ḥafṣ al-Fallās diverged, saying that he died in 95 AH, and other dates have also been reported.

His ḥadith is transmitted with a high chain in Juzʾ al-Anṣārī, in the Ghaylāniyyāt (2), and elsewhere—Allah knows best.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqīh and a number of others informed us—by authorized transmission—saying: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn Ghaylān informed us; Abu Bakr al-Shāfiʿī informed us; Mūsā ibn Sahl narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Sulaymān al-Taymī narrated to us, from Abu ʿUthmān, from Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, who said:

“A group of young men went out talking together and came upon a herd of unattended camels. One of them remarked, ‘It seems the owners of these camels are not with them.’ A camel replied, ‘Their owners were rounded up earlier this morning.’ ”

With this same chain Abu Bakr al-Shāfiʿī said: Muḥammad ibn Maslamah narrated to us; Yazīd narrated to us; Sulaymān al-Taymī informed us, from Abu ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Usāmah ibn Zayd, that the Prophet ﷺ said, “I stood at the gate of Paradise and saw that the majority of those who enter it are the poor, while the wealthy are being held back.” (3)