and al-Aʿmash, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāt, Khuṣayf, Sālim ibn Abī al-Muhājir, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Furāt ibn al-Sāʾib, Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, al-Awzāʿī, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, al-Naḍr ibn ʿArabī, al-Jurayrī, Maʿqil ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqī, and many others besides them.

It is said that he was born in the year ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face) died, 40 AH.

A number of scholars declared him trustworthy. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is more reliable than ʿIkrimah.”

Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, who said, “These four were the scholars of the people in the time of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik: Makḥūl, al-Ḥasan, al-Zuhrī, and Maymūn ibn Mihrān.”

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh transmitted from Maymūn ibn Mihrān that he said, “I used to give ʿAlī precedence over ʿUthmān. ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said to me, ‘Which of the two do you prefer: a man who was quicker to shed blood, or a man who was quicker to amass wealth?’ So I withdrew that view and said, ‘I will not go back to it.’ ”

He also said, “I was with ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; when I rose to leave, he remarked, ‘When this man and his peers pass on, those who come after will become wobbly and unstable.’ (1)

Abū al-Malīḥ said, “I have never seen a man better than Maymūn ibn Mihrān.”

ʿAmr ibn Maymūn ibn Mihrān narrated: “I would have liked that this finger of mine be cut off right here, and that I had never held any post for ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz or for anyone else.”

Abū al-Malīḥ al-Raqqī, on the authority of Ḥabīb ibn Abī Marzūq, reported that Maymūn said, “I wish that …”