He heard Anas ibn Mālik, Abū l-ʿĀliya al-Riyāḥī—most of what he related came from him—and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.

From him narrated Sulaymān al-Taymī, al-Aʿmash, al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid, Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim, Ibn al-Mubārak, and others. He was the leading scholar of Marw in his day. Al-Layth transmitted—from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zahr—from him, and Sufyān al-Thawrī met him as well.

Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.” Ibn Abī Dāwūd said, “He was imprisoned in Marw for thirty years.” I say: Abū Muslim kept him confined for nine of those years, and Ibn al-Mubārak managed to enter the prison and hear hadith from him.

It is said that he died in 139 AH. His reports are found in the four Sunan collections.

80 – Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ashajj al-Qurashī al-Madanī* (ʿA)
The imam, dependable and firmly grounded memoriser, Abū ʿAbd Allāh—some say Abū Yūsuf—al-Qurashī, originally from Medina and later resident in Egypt, the freedman of Banū Makhzūm, one of the luminaries. He was the father of the hadith scholar Makhrama ibn Bukayr and the brother of Yaʿqūb and ʿUmar.

He is classed among the junior Successors because he narrated from al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd and Abū Umāma ibn Sahl. He also related from Sulaymān ibn Yasār and from Maḥmūd ibn Labīd—the one who was old enough to remember a single majja (1).