ʿAbbās al-Dūrī narrates—through Yaḥyā—who said: Sufyān related to me:

ʿAmr ibn Dīnār said, “I came to Abū Jaʿfar when no one else was with me. He turned to his two brothers, Zayd and another sibling, and said, ‘Go to your uncle and help him dismount.’ They came over and helped me down.”

Ibn ʿUyaynah used to say, “From ʿAmr I heard as many ḥadīths as the years Noah remained among his people”—that is, one thousand minus fifty traditions.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrates from Maʿmar: “Whenever someone approached ʿAmr ibn Dīnār with the stated aim of learning from him, he would not transmit anything. But if a man came to sit with him informally, joke with him, and offer him something, he would become cheerful and relate ḥadīths at length.”

Al-Nasāʾī said: “ʿAmr is trustworthy, firmly reliable.”

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan reports from Ibn ʿUyaynah: “When ʿAmr ibn Dīnār fell ill, al-Zuhrī visited him. Upon leaving, al-Zuhrī remarked, ‘I have never seen an elder who preserves sound ḥadīth more scrupulously than this man.’”

I (the author) add: ʿAmr narrates from al-Zuhrī, and al-Zuhrī also narrates from him.

Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “ʿAmr is more reliable than Qatādah.”

Aḥmad further said, “He is the most reliable transmitter of the narrations of ʿAṭāʾ”—meaning ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ.

ʿAmr also relates from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Mīnāʾ and ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, and those chains appear in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.

Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq read to us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh in Baghdad informed us. Likewise, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr the jurist informed us in his book; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jalājalī informed us in the year 608 AH. They said:

Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr the cloth-merchant informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī informed us; Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī narrated to us, from ʿAmr, from Jābir, who said:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “War is deception.” (1)