Those who narrated from him include: his son Mūsā al-Kāẓim; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād—both older than he—Abū Ḥanīfa; Abān ibn Taghlib; Ibn Jurayj; Muʿāwiya ibn ʿAmmār al-Duhnī; Ibn Isḥāq, together with a number of his contemporaries; Sufyān; Shuʿba; Mālik; Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar; Wahb ibn Khālid; Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAyyāsh—brother of Abū Bakr—Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad; Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth; Zayd ibn Ḥasan al-Anmāṭī; Saʿīd ibn Sufyān al-Aslamī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿImrān al-Zuhrī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī; ʿUthmān ibn Farqud; Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-Bunānī; Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Zaʿfarānī; Muslim al-Zanjī; Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān; Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl; and others besides.
Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: “I heard al-Darāwardī say, ‘Mālik did not transmit from Jaʿfar until the Abbasids had taken power.’” Muṣʿab added: “Mālik used to pair him with another.”
ʿAlī related from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, who said: “Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad dictated to me the long ḥadith—meaning the one on pilgrimage (1)—then said, ‘I still have some misgivings about it (2); Mujālid is dearer to me than it.’”
I say: This is one of Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān’s slips, for the leading imams of this science unanimously agreed that Jaʿfar is more reliable than Mujālid, and they paid no attention to Yaḥyā’s remark.
Isḥāq ibn Ḥakīm reported that Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said, “Jaʿfar was never a liar.”
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