Those who narrated from him were: Usāmah ibn Zayd, al-Darāwardī, Muḥammad ibn Maʿn, Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym al-Ṭāʾifī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī l-Zinād.

Al-Bukhārī rated him as lenient (layyin).

He was the maternal uncle of the two brothers, the sons of Ḥasan. Because of that al-Manṣūr seized him, beat him, and put him in irons; he died in al-Manṣūr’s prison at al-Hāshimiyyah in 145 AH. It is also said that al-Manṣūr had him poisoned.

Al-Nasāʾī remarked, “He is not strong,” and Maʿn al-Qazzāz said, “People allege that al-Manṣūr killed him at the time of the uprising of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh.”

108 – ʿImrān ibn Muslim al-Baṣrī * (B, M, D, T, S)
Short in stature, deeply pious, devoted to worship; Abū Bakr al-Baṣrī, the ascetic Sufi.

He transmitted from Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿUṭāridī, Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, ʿAṭāʾ, Ibn Sīrīn, al-Ḥasan, and Nāfiʿ; some maintain that he also reported from Anas. This places him among the younger Successors.

Those who heard from him include Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿUthmān ibn Zāʾidah, and several others, the last of them being ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ al-Ghudānī. Yet, as Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān observed, he held the Qadarite view.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and others declared him reliable. Ibn ʿAdī listed him in his Complete Collection, rejected certain of his narrations and quoted them in full; in my judgment those reports are sound.

It is related that he pledged to Allah, Exalted is He, never to sleep except when overcome by fatigue. Some have given his father’s name as Maysarah.