and among those who narrated from him were his grandson ʿAbd Rabbihi ibn Bāriq al-Ḥanafī, as well as Misʿar, al-Awzāʿī, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, and Shuʿbah.

Aḥmad and Ibn Maʿīn regarded him as reliable.

Abū Ḥātim and others said, “He is truthful; there is no harm in his narrations.”

112 – Simāk ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Mirbadī (Kh, M, D): a Basran, trustworthy but of few transmissions, who died while still young.
• He narrated from al-Ḥasan.
• He also transmitted a report from Ayyūb but died before Ayyūb.
• Among those who reported from him are Ḥarb ibn Maymūn and Ḥammād ibn Zayd.
Al-Nasāʾī declared him reliable. Two of his hadith are found in the major collections.

These four men were contemporaries, all of them strong authorities, and in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl no one named Simāk is mentioned besides them.

113 – Bakr ibn Sawādah Abū Thumāmah al-Judhāmī (M, 4): an Egyptian jurist.
• He narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Sahl ibn Saʿd, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū Sālim al-Jayshānī, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, and others.
• Those who transmitted from him include ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, al-Layth, Ibn Lahayʿah, and a number of others.
Al-Nasāʾī graded him trustworthy; Muslim relied on his reports, and al-Bukhārī cited him as corroborating evidence.
He died in Egypt in the year 128 AH.