and Ibn Abī Laylā; Qazaʿah ibn Yaḥyā; ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī; Warrād, the scribe of al-Mughīrah; Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥah; Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā; Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-Jushamī; together with many other Companions and leading Successors. He lived to a great age and came to be regarded as the chief musnid of Kūfah.

Those who transmitted from him include: Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Misʿar, Hushaym, Abū ʿAwānah, Isrāʾīl, Zāʾidah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd, and a large number of others.

Among the earlier authorities, Shahr ibn Ḥawshab also related from him, and this appears in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim alongside another transmitter.

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “He has around two hundred hadiths.”

Al-Maymūnī narrated—on the authority of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah—that the latter said: “I heard ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr declare, ‘By Allah, when I relate a hadith I do not leave out so much as a single letter.’”

Al-Nasāʾī and others said: “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked: “His reports are sound (ṣāliḥ al-ḥadīth), but he is not a ḥāfiẓ (hadith master); his memory deteriorated before he died.”

Ishāq al-Kawsaj reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, who said: “He muddles things.”

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hisinjānī related: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr is extremely inconsistent in his narrations. They are few in number—I do not think they reach five hundred—and he has erred in many of them.”

Ishāq al-Kawsaj also transmitted from Aḥmad that he regarded him as very weak.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated from his father: “Simāk ibn Ḥarb’s narrations are sounder than those of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, because the ḥuffāẓ (hadith masters) differ over the latter’s reports.”

Muḥammad ibn Sufyān al-Kūfī reported from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh: “I heard Abā…"