Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar informed us, Abū l-Waqt al-Sijzī informed us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAfīf—in the year 477 AH—informed us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī informed us, Abu l-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbdī narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazwān (Abū Nūḥ) narrated to us. He said:

“I heard Shuʿbah say, ‘Never did I see ʿAmr ibn Murrah in prayer without thinking that he would not leave his place until his supplication had been granted.’”

Using this same chain up to al-Baghawī: al-Ashajj narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Qurashī, from Misʿar, reported:

“In Kūfah there was no one I loved more, nor anyone I considered superior, than ʿAmr ibn Murrah.”

Likewise, Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr told me; Naṣr ibn al-Mughīrah told me; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah said:

“I asked Misʿar, ‘Who was the best of the people you met?’ He replied, ‘No one was better than ʿAmr ibn Murrah.’”

And with this chain: Aḥmad told me; ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; Shuʿbah said:

“I was walking with ʿAmr ibn Murrah on the way to the mosque, and he was blind.”

And with this chain: Aḥmad told me; Ibn al-Aṣbahānī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Salām, from Abū Khālid al-Dalānī, said:

“I said to ʿAmr ibn Murrah, ‘You relate ḥadīth to so-and-so, yet he is such-and-such.’ He replied, ‘We were entrusted with something, and our duty is simply to deliver it.’”

And with this chain: Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; Jarīr, from Mughīrah, reported:

“There remained among the people a remnant of steadfastness until ʿAmr ibn Murrah entered into irjāʾ; then the people plunged headlong into it.”

And with this chain: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Ashajj told me; Aḥmad ibn Bashīr narrated to us; Misʿar said:

“I heard ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysarah, while we were attending the funeral of ʿAmr ibn Murrah, say, ‘I truly believe he was the best person on earth.’”