and others said his name was Sulaymān. His family originated from Kufa.
He related hadith from Anas ibn Mālik, al-Shaʿbī, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Salamah, and al-Ḥasan. Among those who transmitted from him were Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Hushaym, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Ibn ʿUlayyah, and ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus.
Aḥmad, al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Saʿd, and Ibn Maʿīn—according to what ʿAbbās reported from him—declared him reliable. Yet Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ quoted Ibn Maʿīn as saying he was “weak.” Abū Ḥātim remarked, “An elder whose hadith may be written.” Ibn Saʿd said, “He has narrations; he was a man of opinion and jurisprudence.”

61 – Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah, son of the commander Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasanah al-Kindī * (ʿ)
A jurist and imam, Abū Shuraḥbīl al-Kindī, an ally of the clan of Zuhrah ibn Kilāb. He settled in Egypt—some say he was actually born there. His father Rabīʿah lived long enough to meet and behold the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and Jaʿfar himself saw ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Jazʾ.

He narrated from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū al-Khayr Marthad al-Yazanī, ʿIrāk ibn Mālik, al-Aʿraj, and several others. Those who reported from him include al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Bakr ibn Muḍar, ʿAbd Allah ibn Lahīʿah, and others.

Ibn Saʿd and al-Nasāʾī rated him trustworthy. Ibn Saʿd recorded that he died in 132 AH; another view puts his death in 136 AH, which is more accurate. Yet others said he passed away in 134 AH—this last opinion was given by Shabāb.