Abu al-Zinad related: “Aban died before ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwan.”
Yahya al-Qattan said, “The jurists of Medina are ten: Aban ibn ʿUthman, Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib …,” and he mentioned the rest of them.
Malik reported: “ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Bakr told me that his father, Abu Bakr ibn Hazm, used to study judicial matters with Aban.”
ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb stated, “I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable in hadith or jurisprudence than Aban ibn ʿUthman.”
Khalifah said: “Aban died in 105 AH.”
134 – His brother: ʿAmr ibn ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan al-Umawi * (ʿ)
He died long ago.
He narrated from his father and from Usamah ibn Zayd.
Those who transmitted from him include Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, ʿAli ibn al-Husayn, Abu al-Zinad, and others.
He is reliable, though not prolific in narration.
135 – Muwarriq al-ʿIjli, Abu al-Muʿtamir al-Basri **
The eminent scholar, Abu al-Muʿtamir al-Basri.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, vol. 5, p. 150; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, no. 2059; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 199; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, part 1, p. 248; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 13, p. 291a; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1048; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 3, pp. 197, 290; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, p. 106a; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 8, p. 78; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 291.
(**) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, vol. 7, p. 213; Ahmad, al-Zuhd, p. 305; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, no. 1720; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 8, p. 51; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 470; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 4, part 1, p. 403; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, vol. 2, p. 234; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1384; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 4, p. 206; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, vol. 1, p. 122; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 4, p. 75b; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 10, p. 331; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 398.