the Jamalī, the Kufan, one of the eminent imams.
He narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā.
He also transmitted, in mursal form, from Ibn ʿAbbās and others.
Among those whose reports he took are Abū Wāʾil, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, Ibn Abī Laylā, ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdi, Murrah al-Ṭayyib, Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Hilāl ibn Yasāf, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, Yūsuf ibn Māhak, Abū al-Bakhtarī al-Ṭāʾī, Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Abū ʿUmar Zādhān, Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salamah, Abū al-Ḍuḥā, Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd, Abū Burdah, and many others.
Those who received hadith from him include Abū Isḥāq al-Sibīʿī—who belongs to his own generation—al-Aʿmash, Idrīs ibn Yazīd, al-ʿAwwām ibn Ḥawshab, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Abū Khālid al-Dālanī, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—one of his peers—Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, Misʿar, and many others besides them.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “He has about two hundred hadiths.”
Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Rāzī reported that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was asked about him, and he upheld his reliability.
Al-Kawsaj related from Ibn Maʿīn: “Reliable.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable, but he subscribed to irjāʾ (1).”
Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭanāfisī quoted Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth as saying: “I never heard al-Aʿmash commend anyone except ʿAmr ibn Murrah, for he used to say: ‘He was trustworthy in what he reported.’”
Baqiyyah said: I asked Shuʿbah, “ʿAmr ibn Murrah?” He replied, “He was the most knowledgeable of them all.”
Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh transmitted from Shuʿbah that he said: “I never met a single scholar of hadith who did not practice tadlīs (2) except ʿAmr ibn Murrah and Ibn ʿAwn.”