—Yaḥyā: “Weak.”
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He was one of the freedmen of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān. He transmitted only a few reports and was prone to error in what he related; his narration is not to be relied upon unless another transmitter supports it.”
Ibn ʿAdī said: “His ḥadīth may be written down.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “Thābit ibn Qays lived one hundred and five years and died in 168 AH.”
10 – Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hamdānī* (M, 4)
al-Sabīʿī, the Kufan, the leading ḥadīth scholar of Kūfa; Abū Isrāʾīl; the son of its foremost transmitter; the father of the two ḥāfiẓes Isrāʾīl and ʿĪsā; the brother of Isḥāq and the uncle of Yūsuf ibn Isḥāq.
He was counted among the truthful scholars and is regarded as one of the younger Tābiʿīs.
He narrated from: Anas ibn Mālik; Nājah ibn Kaʿb; al-Shaʿbī; Mujāhid; Abū Burdah and Abū Bakr—the two sons of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī; Hilāl ibn Khabbāb; his father Abū Isḥāq; and others.
Transmitters from him include: his son ʿĪsā; Ibn al-Mubārak; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān; Wakīʿ; Ibn Mahdī; Yaḥyā ibn Ādam; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī; Qabīṣah; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī; and many more.
He came from a household devoted to knowledge and preservation.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī said: “There was nothing objectionable about him.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable,”