also al-ʿAwqī, the Basran. Al-ʿAwqa is a branch of the ʿAbd al-Qays tribe.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAlī, Abū Hurayrah, ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, Jābir ibn Samurah, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Jābir, Ibn al-Zubayr, and a number of other Companions.
He likewise narrated mursal reports from Abū Dharr.
He also related from Suhayb, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbās; Sumayr (1) ibn Nahār; Saʿd ibn al-Aṭwal; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mawlah; Qays ibn ʿAbbād; Abū Firās al-Nahdī; and others.
He was counted among the leading scholars of Basra.
Among those who reported from him are Qatādah, Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr, Sulaymān al-Taymī, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Abū Bishr, ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Dāʾūd ibn Abī Hind, al-Ṣalt ibn Dīnār, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb, ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī, Kahmas ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū al-Ashhab al-ʿAṭāridī, al-Mustamir ibn al-Rayyān, Abū ʿAqīl al-Dawraqī, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Huddānī, his son ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Naḍrah, al-ʿAwwām ibn Ḥamzah, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Suwayd ibn Ḥujayr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shawdhab, and many others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “I know nothing about him except good.”
Isḥāq al-Kawsaj reported from Yaḥyā: “Trustworthy.”
Abū Zurʿah and al-Nasāʾī likewise said, “Trustworthy.”
Ibn Saʿd (2) said, “Trustworthy, prolific in ḥadith, though not everyone accepts his ḥadith as conclusive proof.”