I say: Apparently he remained alive until shortly before the year 120 AH, and the leading compilers accepted his narrations as evidence.
Isḥāq ibn Ṭāriq informed us; Ibn Khalīl reported to us; Masʿūd al-Jammāl and Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī (ḥ) related to us.
Ahmad ibn Abī al-Khayr then transmitted from the two of them that Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād had told them; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Bishr ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Reciter narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Hishām ibn ʿĀmir, who said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘From the creation of Adam until the Hour is established, no trial is greater than that of the Dajjāl.’ (1)”
It was corroborated by Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, from Ḥumayd, with the same wording.
148 – Hammām ibn Munabbih ibn Kāmil ibn Sīj al-Abnawī* (ʿ), the Sanʿānī traditionist, precision scholar, Abū ʿUqbāh, owner of the well-known authentic scroll he wrote from Abū Hurayrah, which contains about one hundred and forty ḥadiths.
Maʿmar ibn Rāshid transmitted that booklet from him.
He also memorised reports from Muʿāwiyah, Ibn ʿAbbās, and a number of others.