Narrated from him were: Muslim in the Ṣaḥīḥ, Abū Zurʿah, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Muʿammarī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Muṭayyin, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Abū Yaʿlā, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and many others.
When Aḥmad was asked about him he said, “There is nothing objectionable about him; I have known him since long ago,” and he proceeded to speak well of him.
Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Zurʿah, Ṣāliḥ Jazrah, and al-Dāraquṭnī all judged him “reliable.” Ṣāliḥ added, “trustworthy (maʾmūn).”
It is said that he was one of the abdāl (the righteous substitutes).
Al-Baghawī stated: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn al-Kharrāz narrated to us; he was among the finest servants of Allah,” and on another occasion he said, “He was one of the abdāl.”
He died five days into Ramaḍān in the year 232 AH.
Mūsā ibn Hārūn added: “It was on a Monday”—that is, in Baghdad.
Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abraqūhī informed us of a ḥadith from this shaykh, which I have recorded in the biography of Misʿar ibn Kidām.
158 – Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind Dīnār ibn ʿUdhāfir al-Khurasānī (Kh, M, 4)
Abū Hind’s personal name was Dīnār ibn ʿUdhāfir. He was an imam, a ḥāfiẓ, and a reliable authority. His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad al-Khurasānī, later al-Baṣrī. He belonged to the freedmen (mawālī) of Banū Qushayr—so it is said—and some report that his kunyah was Abū Bakr.
He narrated from: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, and ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī,