Among those who narrated from him were: Thawābah ibn ʿAwn, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and others, the last of them being Muḥammad ibn Ḥimyār.

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh said: “He met seventy Companions, and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz appointed him commander of the military campaigns.”

Ibn Saʿd stated: “Sound in ḥadith.”

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh also reported: “I heard him say, ‘I heard Muʿāwiyah on the pulpit cite the verse: Today I have perfected for you your religion… (Qur’an 5:3); it was revealed on a Friday, the Day of ʿArafah.’”

Abū Ḥātim and others declared him trustworthy.

Baqiyyah narrated from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam, who said:
“ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz wrote to the governor of Ḥimṣ: ‘Look to those who have devoted themselves to jurisprudence, who remain in the mosque and have forsaken worldly pursuits; grant each of them one hundred dinars.’ ʿAmr ibn Qays and Asad ibn Wadāʿah were among those who received it.”

It was also said that ʿAmr ibn Qays was among those who marched to seek retaliation for the blood of the impious al-Walīd.

Maḥmūd ibn Khālid said: “He died in 140 AH, at the age of one hundred.”

Another report states that he died in 125 AH.

157 – ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy, Abū ʿUmar al-Kindī al-Urdunnī* (4)

The eminent Imām and judge of Tiberias, Abū ʿUmar al-Kindī of the Jordan district.

He narrated from: Shaddād ibn Aws, Muʿāwiyah, Ubayy ibn ʿImārah (with the ʿayn vocalised with a kasrah), Abū Saʿīd al-Khuḍrī, and a number of others.