He transmitted from: Shaddād ibn Aws, Thawbān, Abū Hurayrah, Aws ibn Aws, Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, and Muʿāwiyah; and also from Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī—his narration from Abū Dharr appears in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.
Those who reported from him include: Abū Salām Mamṭūr, Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī, Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī, Shaddād Abū ʿAmmār, Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣīr, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Dhimārī, and Rāshid al-Ṣanʿānī.
He was counted among the foremost scholars of Syria. Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī and others judged him trustworthy, yet al-Bukhārī included none of his ḥadiths.
There is disagreement over the personal name of Abū Asmāʾ: some say it was ʿAmr ibn Marthad, while Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Samīʿ and Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī maintained that it was ʿAmr ibn Asmāʾ. I have found no record of his date of death, though he belonged to the senior generation of the Successors; I am inclined to think he passed away during the caliphate of al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
192 – Ḥanash ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥanẓalah al-Nasāʾī * (M, 4)
Also known as Abū Rishdīn al-Nasāʾī, al-Ṣanʿānī.