among those who narrated from him were al-Aʿmash, Shuʿbah, Abū ʿAwanah, Hushaym, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and others besides.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī and others declared him trustworthy. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Abū Bishr is dearer to us than al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr and more reliable.”
Yahyā al-Qaṭṭān related: “Shuʿbah graded Abū Bishr’s narrations from Mujāhid as weak, saying that he had not heard anything from him.” Shuʿbah also remarked, “The reports of Abū Bishr from Ḥabīb ibn Sālim are weak.”
Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī said, “I hope there is nothing objectionable about him.”
Nūḥ ibn Ḥabīb stated, “Abū Bishr was in prostration behind the Maqām when he died, may Allah have mercy on him.”
He passed away in 124 AH. Muṭayyin and others said he died in 123 AH, while ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī and a group held that his death was in 125 AH.
212 – Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah Abū Bakr al-Muhāribī, their client * (ʿ)
The Imām, the authoritative proof, Abū Bakr al-Muhāribī—their client—from Damascus.
He narrated from: Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū Kabshah al-Salūlī, Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah, and a number of others.
Transmitters from him include: al-Awzāʿī, Abū Muʿīd Ḥafṣ ibn Ghailān, Abū Ghassān Muḥammad