Ahmad ibn Zuhayr transmitted from Yahya ibn Maʿin, who said, “Hamzah is trustworthy.”

Al-Nasa’i and others remarked, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Al-Saji said, “Truthful, though his memory is poor.”

It is related that when al-Aʿmash saw Hamzah al-Zayyat approaching, he recited, “And give glad tidings to the humble” (Qur’an 22:34).

I have presented the accounts of Imam Hamzah in Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ and in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (1) at far greater length than here, and his narrations do not fall below the rank of ḥasan (fair).

He died in 158 AH at the age of seventy-eight, according to what has reached us; the sound view, however, is that his death occurred in 156 AH.

Some eighty hadith are recorded from him, and he was among the imams who acted upon their knowledge.

39 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shawdhub al-Balkhī, later of Basra (4)

The imam, the scholar, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, resident of Jerusalem.

He narrated from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Ibn Sīrīn, Makḥūl, Maṭar al-Warrāq, Abū al-Tayyāḥ, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Mubārak, Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, al-Walīd ibn Mazīd al-ʿUdhri, Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Maṣṣīṣī, and several others.

Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal and others classed him as trustworthy.