is mursal.
He likewise transmitted—again in mursal form—from his father’s paternal uncle, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd.

Those who reported from him include: Isḥāq ibn Yazīd al-Hudhalī, Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī Sufyān, Mālik ibn Mighwal, Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, Abū Ḥanīfah, Misʿar, Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy, al-Masʿūdī, and a number of others.

Aḥmad and other authorities declared him reliable.

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said, “ʿAwn prayed behind Abū Hurayrah.”

Ibn Saʿd stated: “When ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz assumed the caliphate, ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Mūsā ibn Abī Kathīr, and ʿUmar ibn Dharr travelled to meet him. They discussed with him the doctrine of irjāʾ and debated it, and they claimed that he did not oppose them on any aspect of it.”

He added, “ʿAwn was trustworthy, though he would transmit mursal reports.”

Al-Bukhārī said, “ʿAwn heard Abū Hurayrah.”

Al-Aṣmaʿī remarked, “He was among the most well-mannered and learned people of Medina. He had once espoused irjāʾ, then abandoned it.”

It was also said that he joined Ibn al-Ashʿath’s uprising, then fled. Muḥammad ibn Marwān granted him safe-conduct in al-Jazīrah, and Muḥammad’s son Marwān studied under him.

We were informed that his father asked, “How did you find your cousin?”
He replied, “Commander, you have bound me to a man who, if I stay away, reproaches me; if I come to him, I am denied access; if I remonstrate, he shouts; and if I shout back, he becomes angry.”

So he left the man and attached himself to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who granted him a special position. Jarīr had already spent a long time waiting at ʿUmar’s door, and he wrote to ʿAwn these verses:

O reader who lets the tail of his turban hang loose,
This is your moment—indeed, my moment has passed.
Convey to our Caliph, should you encounter him,
That I am at the door, like a captive chained in iron. ⦗1⦘

Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated from Mughīrah, who said:
“ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh…"