Ahmad said, “He is reliable and his narrations are delightful.”
Abu Zurʿah remarked, “Suwayliḥ” (fair but not robust).
Abu Hatim said, “Soft in ḥadith; he practices tadlīs.”
I say: He died in 149 AH, and his reports are sound.

94 – Fudayl ibn Ghazwan ibn Jarir al-Dabbi (ʿ)
The imam, traditionist, and trustworthy authority, Abu Muhammad al-Dabbi, a Kufan.
He narrated from Abu Hazim al-Ashjaʿi, Abu Zurʿah al-Bajali, ʿIkrimah, Salim ibn ʿAbd Allah, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were his son Muḥammad ibn Fudayl, Jarir ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Isḥaq al-Azraq, Ibn Numayr, Yahya al-Qaṭṭān, and a number of others.
Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal and others declared him reliable.
He passed away in one of the years of the 140s AH.

95 – Bakr ibn ʿAmr al-Maʿāfirī al-Miṣrī (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, al-Nasaʾi, al-Tirmidhi)
One of the leading authorities.
He related from Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Hubuli, ʿIkrimah, and Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān.
Those who transmitted from him include Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, Yaḥya ibn Ayyub, Ibn Lahiʿah, al-Layth, and others.
He was trustworthy, precise, virtuous, devout, of high standing, and served as the imam of the main mosque in Fusṭāṭ.