and Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, Abū Murrah, the freedman of ʿAqīl, Baʿjah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Juhanī, and several others.

He is also reported—though the chain is interrupted—to have narrated from Ibn ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.

Among those who transmitted from him were: Ibn Shihāb, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād, ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, the two Hammāds, the two Sufyāns, Mālik, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, Abū Ghassān Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif, Mūsā ibn Yaʿqūb, Hishām ibn Saʿd, Fuḍayl ibn Sulaymān, al-Darāwardī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Muqaddamī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, and many others besides them.

Ibn Maʿīn, Aḥmad, and Abū Ḥātim all judged him trustworthy. Ibn Khuzaymah said, “Reliable; there was none like him in his time.”

Yaḥyā al-Wuḥāḍī said, “I asked Ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ‘Did your father hear from Abū Hurayrah?’ He answered, ‘Whoever tells you that my father heard from any Companion other than Sahl ibn Saʿd is lying.’ ”

Ibn ʿUyaynah related from Abū Ḥāzim that he said, “I deliver admonitions even though I see no place for them, and my only purpose is to benefit myself.”

He (Ibn ʿUyaynah) also reported him as saying, “The burden of both religion and the world has become heavy.” Someone asked, “In what way?” He replied, “As for religion, you can find no supporters; as for the world, whenever you reach out for any portion of it you discover some profligate has already beaten you to it.”

He further transmitted from him: “Kings have no true friends; the envious find no rest; and reflecting on consequences is the fertilization of the intellect.”

Sufyān said, “I recounted these remarks to al-Zuhrī, who said, ‘Abū Ḥāzim was my neighbor, and I never imagined he could speak such words.’ ”