and Rabiʿah ibn ʿAbbād, Anas ibn Mālik, Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥakam, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥunayn, Humrān, Dhakwān Abū Ṣāliḥ, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, ʿUrwah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yarbūʿ, his own father—al-Munkadir—and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Zuhrī, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Ibn Jurayj, Maʿmar, Mālik, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Shuʿbah, the two Sufyāns, Rūḥ ibn al-Qāsim, Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, al-Awzāʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Ḥanīfah, Ibn Abī Dhīb, his son al-Munkadir, Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar, Abū ʿAwānah, al-Walīd ibn Abī Thawr, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn al-Mājishūn, his other son Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, Yūsuf ibn Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, and a great many others.
ʿAlī said: “He has around two hundred hadiths.”
Ibn Rāhawayh related from Sufyān, who said:
“He was a repository of truthfulness; the righteous used to gather around him; and I never met anyone more worthy that people accept his words when he said, ‘The Messenger of Allah said,’ than him.”
Al-Ḥumaydī remarked, “He was a ḥāfiẓ.”
Ibn Maʿīn and Abū Ḥātim declared, “Reliable.”
Al-Tirmidhī said, “I asked Muḥammad—meaning al-Bukhārī—‘Did he hear directly from ʿĀʾishah?’ He replied, ‘Yes; in his narration he says, ‘I heard ʿĀʾishah.’’”
I (the author) say: If a sound chain to Ibn al-Munkadir with this wording can be established, that is excellent—and it is entirely possible, for he was a relative of hers, enjoyed privileged access to her, and reached her when he was a little over twenty years of age.
Abū Ḥātim al-Bustī said: “He was one of the leading Qurʾān-reciters. Whenever he read a hadith of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he could not restrain his tears, and he used to dye his beard and hair with henna.”
Abū al-Qāsim al-Lālikāʾī said: “Al-Munkadir was ʿĀʾishah’s maternal uncle, and he once complained to her of straitened circumstances….”