He transmitted from: Nuʿaym al-Mujmir, ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUtbah, al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazzah, Qatādah, Zayd ibn Aslam, ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm, Nāfiʿ, and Ibn Shihāb.
He also reported mursal narrations from Jābir and others.
Among those who narrated from him were: Khālid ibn Yazīd, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, Hishām ibn Saʿd, and al-Layth ibn Saʿd.
Abū Ḥātim said, “There is no harm in him” (i.e., he is reliable).
He was born in the year 70 AH, and he died in 135 AH, according to Ibn Yūnus. Ibn Ḥibbān, however, placed his death in 149 AH.
It was also said that he grew up in Madinah, and that Saʿīd al-Maqburi—one of his own teachers—narrated from him.
129 – ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar al-ʿAdawī (ʿ)
Son of Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim, grandson of the Commander of the Believers, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.
The imam, master reciter, ḥāfiẓ; Abū ʿUthmān al-Qurashī, al-ʿAdawī, later known as al-ʿUmari, of Madinah.
He was born after 70 AH, or thereabouts.
He met Umm Khālid bint Khālid, the female Companion, and heard ḥadith from her, making him one of the younger Successors.
He also heard from: Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allah, and al-Qāsim ibn—