and among those who narrated from him were Ibn Mahdī, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Nuʿaym, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAffān, and others.

Aḥmad said, “He is trustworthy and upright.” Ibn Maʿīn remarked, “He is not strong,” while Abū Ḥātim and others judged, “His ḥadith is acceptable.” Abū Ḥātim, however, faulted al-Bukhārī for listing him in the Book of Weak Narrators, even though al-Bukhārī actually recorded one of his traditions only in tandem with another transmitter. As for Abū Dāwūd, he declared him weak, and al-Nasāʾī likewise said, “He is not strong.”

I say: he lived on until roughly 160 AH, and he is stronger than ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr.

63 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shurayḥ, Abū Shurayḥ al-Maʿāfirī * (ʿ)
The imām, exemplar, and godly scholar—Abū Shurayḥ al-Maʿāfirī, the Alexandrian devotee.

He related ḥadith from Abū Qabīl al-Maʿāfirī, Mūsā ibn Wardān, Abū Hāniʾ Ḥumayd ibn Hāniʾ, Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī, and others.

Those who transmitted from him included Ibn al-Mubārak, Ibn Wahb, al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, Hāniʾ ibn al-Mutawakkil, and many more.

He was devout, ascetic, and wholly devoted to his own spiritual pursuits.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn deemed him reliable, and Abū Ḥātim said, “There is no harm in him.”

Hāniʾ ibn al-Mutawakkil said, “Muḥammad ibn ʿUbādah al-Maʿāfirī told me, ‘We were…’”