ʿĀmir; others maintain that his given name was in fact his kunyah. He was the son of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays ibn Ḥaḍḍār, a Kufan jurist who served as the judge of Kūfah under al-Ḥajjāj, until the latter removed him and appointed his brother Abū Bakr in his place.
He transmitted hadith from his father, ʿAlī, ʿĀʾishah, Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, ʿAbd Allah ibn Salām, Hudhayfah, Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿUmar, al-Barāʾ, Muʿāwiyah, al-Agharr al-Muzanī, and a number of others.
He also took narrations from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, Zir ibn Hubaysh, and their peers.
Those who reported from him include his sons Saʿīd, Yūsuf, and the governor Bilāl; his grandson Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Burdah; al-Shaʿbī; al-Qāsim ibn Mukhaimarah; Abū Mijlaz; Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī; Makḥūl of Syria; Qatādah; ʿAmr ibn Murrah; Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr; ʿAdī ibn Thābit; ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allah; al-Naḍr ibn Anas; Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī; Abū Sakhrah Jāmiʿ ibn Shaddād; Thābit al-Bunānī; Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ; Ḥakīm ibn Daylam; Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl; Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥah; Abū Ḥuṣayn; Furāt ibn al-Sāʾib; Layth ibn Abī Sulaym; Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ashajj; Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, and many others.
He was counted among the leading scholars qualified for independent legal reasoning.
Ibn Saʿd (1) said: “He was reliable and narrated a great many hadith.”
Al-ʿIjlī said: “A Kufan Successor, trustworthy.”