from Ḥimṣ, one of the last of the junior Tābiʿūn.

He received hadith from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishr (may Allah be pleased with him), Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Rāshid ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maysarah, Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar, Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh, Ādam ibn Abī Iyyās, Abū al-Mughīrah, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and many others besides them.

He taught hadith in Syria and Iraq; his material amounts to roughly two hundred reports, and he was accused of nasb (sectarian hostility toward ʿAlī) (1).

Abū Ḥātim said: “What people say about his doctrinal stance is not sound in my view, and I do not know of anyone in Syria more reliable than he.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “Harīz is trustworthy, trustworthy, trustworthy; he did not espouse the Qadari view concerning predestination.”

Abū al-Yamān remarked: “He used to speak against a certain man, then he abandoned that.”

It is related from ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Harīz, that he said: “Do I revile ʿAlī?! By Allah, I have never reviled him.”

He is also reported to have said: “I do not love him, because he killed a number of my people on the Day of Ṣiffīn (2).”