He narrated from: Tawus, al-Qasim ibn Muhammad, Salim ibn ʿAbd Allah, Saʿid ibn Mina, ʿAtaʾ, Nafiʿ, and others besides them. He was counted among the leading ḥadith scholars of Mecca.

Those who reported from him include: Sufyan al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, Yahya al-Qattan, al-Walid ibn Muslim, Wakiʿ, Ibn Wahb, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Musa, Ishaq ibn Sulayman, Abu ʿAsim, Makki ibn Ibrahim, and many more.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “Trustworthy, trustworthy.” Yahya ibn Saʿid said, “Trustworthy; he died in the year 151 AH.”

Ibn ʿAdi showed some hesitation when listing him in al-Kamil, yet he produced nothing that a captious critic could seize upon.

Yaʿqub ibn Shaybah said: I heard ʿAli ibn al-Madini, and he was asked, “How is Ḥanẓalah’s transmission from Salim?” He replied, “One valley (1); the transmission of Musa ibn ʿUqbah from Salim is another valley, and the reports of al-Zuhri from Salim are as though they were the reports of Nafiʿ.”

It was said to ʿAli, “That shows that Salim narrated a great deal of ḥadith.” He answered, “Indeed.”

Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “Ḥanẓalah is trustworthy.”

Ibn ʿAdi said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Sabor—and I have written this only from him—narrated to us; he said: al-Faḍl ibn al-Ṣabbah narrated to us; he said: Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Razi narrated to us, from Ḥanẓalah, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Wash your dead who are killed.”

This report is exceedingly singular, yet its transmitters are reliable. It is to be applied to those slain outside the ranks of battle, and the error in it is most likely from the shaykh of Ibn—