upon us, and of His gracious favor to us. O Allah, accompany us and shower us with Your bounty; I seek refuge in Allah from Hellfire.” He would repeat this three times.
This report is mawqūf (1) and is transmitted solely through ʿUmar ibn Dharr.
He narrated from his father, Abū Wāʾil, Mujāhid, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Muʿādhah al-ʿAdawiyyah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Yazīd ibn Umayyah, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā, and others.
Among those who narrated from him are: Ibn al-Mubārak, Wakīʿ, Isḥāq al-Azraq, Yūnus ibn Bukayr, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Umawī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, Ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, al-Khuraybī, Abū ʿĀṣim, al-Firyābī, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Abū Nuʿaym, Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, and many others.
Abū Ḥanīfah—despite being senior to him—also related from him.
It was said that he did not transmit a large number of narrations.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī stated: “He has about thirty hadiths.”
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd reported that his grandfather said: “He is reliable; his hadith should not be abandoned because of a view in which he erred.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Reliable.”
Al-Nasāʾī and al-Dāraquṭnī likewise declared him reliable.
Abū Dāwūd said: “He was a leading figure of irjāʾ; he lost his sight.”
Al-ʿIjlī said: “ʿUmar ibn Dharr the preacher was trustworthy and eloquent; he held the view of irjāʾ, and the criticism against him is mild.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “Truthful, Murjiʾī; his hadith is not used as proof. He is on a par with Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq.”
In another place he said: “He was a righteous man, essentially truthful.”
Al-Fasawī said: “Reliable, Murjiʾī.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khirāsh said: “A Kufan, truthful, one of the finest of people, and he was a Murjiʾī.”