He narrated from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, Abū Wāʾil Shaqīq, Abū Ḥāzim al-Ashjaʿī, and ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī—the bulk of his material coming from the last of these.

Those who narrated from him include Shuʿbah, Misʿar, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Khalaf ibn Khalīfah, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, and others.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is trustworthy, solid.”

He died in 122 AH.

The author of al-Ḥilyah mentions him and says: “Among them is the devout, patient worshiper, Abū al-Ḥakam Sayyār.”

Hushaym related: “We entered upon him while he was weeping, so we asked, ‘What makes you weep?’ He replied, ‘The very thing that made the worshipers before me weep.’”

Muḥriz ibn ʿAwn narrated from Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ:

“Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam visited Mālik ibn Dīnār wearing fine garments. Mālik said to him, ‘Someone like you wears this kind of clothing?!’

Sayyār replied, ‘Do my clothes lower me in your eyes or raise me?’

Mālik answered, ‘They lower you.’

Sayyār said, ‘That is humility.’

Then he added, ‘O Mālik, I fear that your two garments may have earned you a standing with people that they have not earned for you with Allah.’”

180 – Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah (ʿ), son of Dhī Yuḥmid. It is also said that his name was ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī al-Hamdānī, of Kūfa—the ḥāfiẓ, the shaykh of Kūfa, its foremost scholar and leading hadith authority. I have not been able to trace his full lineage.