Mālik said, “In Medina there was no person of distinction who, when some affair pressed upon him, did not refer the matter to Ibn Hurmuz. Whenever the charity flocks arrived in the city he would abstain from eating meat, because the collectors were not taking from them what was due as it ought to be taken.

He once told Mālik, ‘Beware of relying on personal opinion (raʾy); I sat with Rabīʿah and put him to the test.’

Mālik also said, “I kept the company of Ibn Hurmuz for 13 years, and he made me swear that I would never mention his name when transmitting hadith.”

Abū Ḥātim said: “He is not strong, yet his hadith is written down.”

Al-Bukhārī said: Al-Farwī told me that he died in the year 148 AH, and his walāʾ (client-affiliation) was to Banū Layth.

160 – Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr ibn Harm al-Saksakī * (M, 4, Tk)

The Imām, hadith scholar, and ḥāfiẓ: Abū ʿAmr al-Saksakī, the Ḥimṣī, one of the two chief traditionists of Ḥimṣ along with Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān.

He narrated from: ʿAbd Allah ibn Busr al-Māzinī—whose mother was Umm Hijris bint ʿAwsaja al-Muqraʾī—Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Rāshid ibn Saʿd, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾid al-Thumālī, Ayfaʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Kalāʿī, Ḥujr ibn Mālik al-Kindī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿAwf al-Jurashī, ʿAqīl ibn Mudrik al-Khawlānī, ʿIkrima, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbās, Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir al-Khabāʾirī, Abū al-Yamān ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Luḥayy al-Hawzanī, Ḥawshab ibn Sayf al-Saksakī, Yazīd ibn Khumayr al-Raḥbī, and a great many other narrators who are not well-known.