Mulaykah; Abu Yunus, the freedman of Abu Hurayrah; ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb; Abu ʿUshshanah al-Maʿāfiri; Ibn Shihāb; Abu az-Zubayr; Qatādah; ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb; ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī Jaʿfar; Kaʿb ibn ʿAlqamah; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qusayṭ; Bakr ibn Sawādah; Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj; Thumāmah ibn Shufay; Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah; his own father al-Hārith; al-Julāḥ Abū Kathīr; Ḥabbān ibn Wāsiʿ; Zayd ibn Aslam; Darrāj Abū as-Samh; Rabīʿah ar-Raʾy; Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah; Sālim Abū an-Naḍr; Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥārith al-Anṣārī; Saʿīd ibn Abī Hilāl; ʿĀmir ibn Yaḥyā al-Maʿāfiri; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār; ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah; Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, and many others.
He excelled in learning, and his name became renowned.
Among those who narrated from him were his own teacher Qatādah, and likewise his teacher Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ashajj.
It has also been claimed that Mujāhid ibn Jabr transmitted from him, but this is an inexcusable error.
Those who related from him include: Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān—who was older than he; Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī—of the same generation yet senior; Mālik; al-Layth; Bakr ibn Muḍar; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb; Mūsā ibn Aʿyan; Nāfiʿ ibn (1) Yazīd; Ibn Wahb; and Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb ibn Shābūr. He never reached old age; rather, he died in the prime of life.
Ibn Saʿd said, “He was reliable, God willing.”
Abu Dāwūd reported: “I heard Aḥmad say, ‘Among them—that is, the scholars of Egypt—none possess sounder hadith than al-Layth, and ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith comes close to him.’”
Al-Athram quoted Aḥmad as saying: “Among these Egyptians there is no one more firmly established than al-Layth—not ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith nor anyone else. ʿAmr once held a place with me, but later I noticed in his narrations certain objectionable matters.”
And in another place Aḥmad said (2): “ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith bore a heavy burden; he relates from Qatādah hadiths in which he vacillates and makes mistakes.” And Ibn