He narrated from Bashīr ibn al-Khaṣāṣiyyah and Abū Hurayrah.
Those who narrated from him include al-Walīd ibn Barakah, Abū Mijlaz Lāḥiq, al-Naḍr ibn Anas, Khālid ibn Sumayr (1), and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī.
His ḥadīths are recorded in the Six Books. Abū Ḥātim alone dissented, saying, “His reports are not relied upon as evidence.”
183 – Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā
One of the scholars of Kūfah and among its reliable transmitters.
He narrated from his father.
Those who took from him include Dharr al-Hamdānī, al-Ḥakam, Qatādah, Zubayd al-Yāmī, and ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib.
He transmitted only a few traditions.
184 – Abū Shaʿthāʾ Jābir ibn Zayd al-Azdī al-Yahmadī
Their client, a Basran, al-Khawfī—with a khāʾ (2); and al-Khawf is a district of ʿOmān.
He was the foremost scholar of Basra in his time and was counted among
(1) See note (8), p. 365.
(*) al-Bukhari, Taʾrikh, 3/494; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 2, part 1, p. 39; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 497; al-Dhahabi, Taʾrikh al-Islam, 4/4; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/22 b; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4/54; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 140.
(* *) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/179; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 1729; al-Bukhari, Taʾrikh, 2/204; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 453; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 2/12; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 1, part 1, p. 494; Abu Nuʿaym, al-Hilya, 3/85; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ, p. 88; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, vol. 1, part 1, p. 141, and vol. 2, part 1, p. 244; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 179; al-Dhahabi, Taʾrikh al-Islam, 4/77; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/67; Ibn al-ʿImad, al-ʿIbar, 1/108; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1/99 a; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 9/93; Ibn al-Jazari, Ghaya al-Nihaya, no. 868; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 2/38; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 1/252; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 28; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 59; Ibn al-Mulaqqin, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/101.
(2) This is the vocalization found in the base manuscript; the author confirms it in his Mushtabih al-Nisba and in Taʾrikh al-Islam, and later scholars have followed him.