105 – Abū Jamrah Naṣr ibn ʿImrān al-Ḍubʿī al-Baṣrī * (ʿ)
He was counted among the foremost reliable imams.
He narrated from: Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, Zahdam al-Jarmī, ʿĀʾidh ibn ʿAmr al-Muzanī, and a number of others.
Reported on his authority were: Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Maʿmar, Shuʿbah, the two Ḥammāds, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī, and many more.
The governor Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab took him along to Khurāsān, where he stayed for a time before returning to Baṣrah.
Makhlad ibn Yazīd said, “I saw Abū Jamrah with his teeth plated in gold.”
Yahyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Abū Jamrah and Abū Ḥamzah both narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās. Abū Jamrah al-Ḍubʿī is Naṣr ibn ʿImrān, whereas Abū Ḥamzah is ʿImrān ibn Abī ʿAṭāʾ, a trustworthy transmitter from Wāsiṭ.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad related to us in his book, reporting from ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad; Ibn Khayrūn and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb the ḥāfiẓ said:
“Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazārmard informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥabābah informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; Shuʿbah reported from Abū Jamrah, who said: ‘I used to sit with Ibn ʿAbbās, and he would seat me beside him on his couch. He said to me, “Stay with me until I allot you a share of my wealth,” so I stayed with him for two months.’”
Ibn Saʿd said, “Abū Jamrah is trustworthy.”
He died during the governorship of Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar over—