ibn Idrīs and Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth.
Al-Nasāʾī declared him reliable.
He has a corpus of nearly thirty hadiths.
He died in 139 AH.
56 – Khuṣayf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khiḍramī (4)
The imam and jurist, Abū ʿAwn al-Khiḍramī—pronounced with a kasrah on the initial khāʾ—an Umayyad client, originally from the Jazīrah region, native to Ḥarrān.
He saw Anas ibn Mālik
and heard from Mujāhid, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, ʿIkrimah, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include the two Sufyāns, Sharīk, Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, ʿAttāb ibn Bashīr, Marwān ibn Shujāʿ, Muḥammad ibn Salamah, Muʿammar ibn Sulaymān, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn considered him reliable.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is acceptable.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is not an authority.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “His memory is poor.”
Khuṣayf himself related: “Mujāhid said to me, ‘Abū ʿAwn, I love you for Allah’s sake.’”
Abū Zurʿah said, “He is trustworthy.”
Ibn Ḥirāsh said, “There is no harm in him.”
Abū Farwah said, “Khuṣayf was put in charge of the public treasury.”
Jarīr said, “He was firmly committed to irjāʾ.” (1)
Ibn Abī Najīḥ said, “He was among the righteous.”