, and ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd, a close companion of ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him), and a great many others.

He also transmitted from a group whose every member was named Muḥammad (1). Among them were Ibn Abī Laylā and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the client of the household of Ṭalḥah.

He related ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Juhādah, Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb, Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn Zayd al-ʿUmarī, Muḥammad ibn Qays ibn Makhramah, Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Ḍabbī, Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Yamāmī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zubayrī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Azhar.

Those who narrated from him include: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Sulaymān al-Taymī—one of his own teachers—, Ibn Numayr, Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb, al-Khuraybī, Wakīʿ, Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Ibn al-Mubārak, Muḥammad ibn Bishr, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Khallād ibn Yaḥyā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughīrah, Thābit ibn Muḥammad the devotee, and many others besides them.

Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAbdī said, “Miʿsar possessed a thousand hadith, and I wrote them all down except ten.”

Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd said, “I have never seen anyone more precise than Miʿsar.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remarked, “Among those counted as trustworthy are men like Shuʿbah and Miʿsar.”

Wakīʿ said, “Miʿsar’s doubt is equal to other people’s certainty.”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah observed, “No one who came to us from Iraq was better than that Sakhtiyānī—Ayyūb—and that Ruʾāsī—Miʿsar.”

It is reported from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmārah that he said, “If only the likes of Miʿsar were to enter Paradise, the people of Paradise would indeed be few.”