—in 149 AH.

I (the author) say: the sound view is that his death occurred in Shawwal of 148 AH; in that same month al-Aʿmash died, together with a number of other senior scholars.

Saʿid ibn Abi Maryam narrated from his maternal uncle who said:
“ʿAmr ibn al-Harith of Egypt would leave his house and find people standing in rows, asking him about the Quran, hadith, jurisprudence, poetry, Arabic, and arithmetic.”

The governor Salih ibn ʿAli had appointed him as tutor for his son al-Fadl, and through that he gained great esteem.

Ibn Wahb said, “I have never seen anyone with a better memory than ʿAmr.”

Al-Nasaʾi said, “ʿAmr ibn al-Harith had a better memory than Ibn Jurayj.”

Abu al-Husayn ʿAli ibn Muhammad and Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman read to us, saying:
Al-Hasan ibn Siyyah al-Makhzumi informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Rifāʿa informed us; ʿAli ibn al-Hasan the judge informed us; Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUmar al-Bazzaz informed us; Abu Tahir Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAmr al-Madani informed us; Yunus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿla narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us, reporting from ʿAmr ibn al-Harith, that Qatadah related to him from Anas ibn Malik:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed the Zuhr, ʿAsr, Maghrib, and ʿIshaʾ prayers, then lay down briefly at al-Muhassab. After that he mounted and proceeded to the House, where he circumambulated it.” (1)

This is an authentic hadith with a high chain.

Through this chain I have several hadiths reaching ʿAmr, but none with a chain higher than this. His narrations never appear in any of the Six Books except with two intermediaries; even in the Musnad of Ahmad there are two men between him and the compiler.