Abu Hatim declared him trustworthy.

Abu Mushir said, “He met Anas.”

Ibn Maʿin added, “He acted as judge on behalf of Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.”

I (the author) say: He was counted among the jurists alongside Makḥūl, and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz dispatched him to instruct the Banū Numayr in jurisprudence and to teach them recitation.

Saʿīd ibn Bashīr remarked, “He was a man of books”—that is, he wrote with polished eloquence.

I (the author) further note: When al-Walīd ibn Yazīd came to power, he removed him from office and installed al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad al-Ashʿarī in his place.

Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said, “No one among us knew judicial matters better than Yazīd ibn Abī Mālik—not Makḥūl nor anyone else.”

Abu ʿUbayd stated that he died in 130 AH, while al-Walīd ibn Muslim held that he lived on until 138 AH.

195 – ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr ibn Suwayd ibn Ḥārithah al-Qurashī (ʿ)

He is also said to have been al-Lakhmī. His kunya was Abū ʿAmr—some say Abū ʿUmar. A Kufan ḥāfiẓ, he was known as al-Qibṭī.

He saw ʿAlī—may Allah honor his face—and Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī.

He narrated from: Jundub al-Bajalī; Jābir ibn Samurah; Jabr ibn ʿAtīk; ʿAmr ibn Ḥuraith; ʿAṭiyyah al-Quraẓī; al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr; Umm ʿAṭiyyah; and, if the chain is sound, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī; as well as Ḥuṣayn ibn Qabīṣah—or Ibn ʿUqbah—; Iyād ibn Laqīṭ; al-Ashʿath ibn Qays—though he did not meet him—; Ḥuṣayn ibn Abī al-Ḥurr; Zayd ibn ʿUqbah; and Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh,