He transmitted ḥadith from ʿUmar, ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad, Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and others.
Those who related from him include Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Sulaymān ibn Yasār, and Wabara ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable.
Ibn Saʿd (1) said: He passed away during the rule of al-Ḥajjāj.
Ibn al-Jawzī said: “People used to learn from his conduct and dignified bearing, and he would stay awake for long hours at night.”
Ḥuṣayn narrated—from Ibrāhīm—that Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith used to supplicate:
“O Allah, cure me of (excessive) sleep with only a little of it, and grant me wakefulness in obedience to You.”
Consequently, he would not sleep except for a brief moment, and that while sitting (2).
- Marthad ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū al-Khayr al-Yazanī al-Miṣrī (ʿ)
An imam, Abū al-Khayr al-Yazanī, the Egyptian—he was the foremost scholar and chief muftī of the Egyptian lands.
Yazan is a sub-tribe of the ancient Himyar.
He narrated from Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, Zayd ibn Thābit, and Abū Baṣrah al-Ghifārī.
(=) Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 4 (part 2), p. 106; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 4/178; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1451; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/212; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4/121 b; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11/66; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 411.
(1) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 6/118.
(2) Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 4/178; see also Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 6/118.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 7/511; Khalifa ibn Khayyat, al-Tabaqat, no. 2735; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 7/416; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 2/491 and 499; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 4 (part 1), p. 299; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ, p. 78; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, pp. 1315 and 1608; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/68; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/303; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/105; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4/29 a; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 10/82; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 29; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/296, 345; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 372.