With this same chain, Abu Ishaq said that Ibn Jurayj remarked:
"No one committed this knowledge to writing the way I did. After I had finished learning from ‘Ataʾ, I sat in the company of ‘Amr ibn Dinar for seven full years.
"For twenty years no one could get ahead of me on ‘Ataʾ’s left side."
He was asked, "And what stopped you from sitting on his right?"
He replied, "The men of Quraysh always beat me to it."

I (the author) say: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Jurayj came to Iraq shortly before his death; he taught in Basra, and the scholars there narrated copiously from him.

Ibn al-Madini and Abu Hafs al-Fallas held that Ibn Jurayj died in 149 AH.
This is a mistake, for Yahya al-Qattan, Makki ibn Ibrahim, Abu Nuʿaym, and others stated that he died in 150 AH.
Another report from Ibn al-Madini places his death in 151 AH.

I say: he lived seventy years; his age, year of birth, and year of death coincide with those of Abu Hanifah.

I read to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim—ʿAbd al-Samad ibn Muhammad the judge informed you in my presence; he was informed by ʿAli ibn al-Musallam; he by al-Husayn ibn Talab; he by Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jumayʿ—who said: Wahb ibn Muhammad narrated to us in Basra; Nasr ibn ʿAli al-Jahdami narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Bakr al-Bursani, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from Abu Ayyub, from Maslamah ibn Mukhalid, reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
"Whoever conceals a Muslim (his fault or sin), Allah will conceal him in this world and the Hereafter; whoever relieves a distressed person, Allah will relieve him of one of the distresses of the Day of Resurrection; and whoever is engaged in his brother’s need, Allah will be engaged in his need." (1)