124 – Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd ibn Dīnār al-ʿAbdī, their client (ʿ)
The Imām, the exemplar, the authoritative proof; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbdī, their client, from Basra.
He was one of the younger Tābiʿīn and among their distinguished figures.
He saw Anas ibn Mālik.
He transmitted from: al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, ʿAṭāʾ, ʿIkrimah, Nāfiʿ the client of Ibn ʿUmar, Ziyād ibn Jubayr, Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Jumaḥī, Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā, Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, al-Ḥakam ibn al-Aʿraj, Ḥuṣayn ibn Abī al-Ḥurr, Thābit al-Bunānī, Abū al-ʿĀliyah al-Barrāʾ, and others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ḥajjāj ibn Ḥajjāj, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Hushaym, ʿAbd al-Wārith, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, Abū Hammām Muḥammad ibn al-Zibriqān, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Sālim ibn Nūḥ, Wuhayb, and many others.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “He has about two hundred hadiths.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “He was reliable and narrated a great deal.”
Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, and the scholars in general declared: “He is trustworthy.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “He is dearer to me than Hishām ibn Ḥassān and senior to Sulaymān al-Taymī; al-Taymī does not reach the rank of Yūnus.”