Ibn Maʿin deemed him trustworthy. Ibn Saʿd (1) said, “He was a jurist who met the greater part of the Companions.”
I add: he transmitted from Suwayd b. al-Nuʿmān, Muḥayyiṣa b. Masʿūd, Sahl b. Abī Ḥathma and Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj. He has a number of hadiths. Those who narrated from him include Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, Rabīʿa al-Raʾy, al-Walīd b. Kathīr, Ibn Isḥāq, and others. He passed away in one-hundred-and-some (2) AH—Allah knows best.
229 – Busr (3) b. ʿUbayd Allah al-Ḥaḍramī (ʿ)
A jurist of Syria, eminent and reliable.
He narrated from Wāthila b. al-Asqaʿ, Ruwayfiʿ, and a number of others; and from him narrated ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Jābir, Thawr b. Yazīd, Zayd b. Wāqid, and Ibn Zabr.
Abū Mushir said, “He was the most accurate of Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī’s companions.”
I add: he lived until about the year 110 AH and was one of the scholars of Damascus. He died during the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik.