Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “I was away from Mecca, and when I returned Sufyān al-Thawrī met me and said, ‘O Ibn ʿUyaynah! ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād is issuing legal verdicts to the Muslims.’
I asked, ‘Is he really doing that?’
He replied, ‘Yes.’

ʿAbd al-Razzāq related: “I was sitting with al-Thawrī when ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād passed by. Al-Thawrī remarked, ‘When he was a young man he possessed deeper understanding than he does now in his old age.’ ”

Abū ʿĀṣim said, “ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār went to Ibn Abī Rawwād, knocked on his door, and called out, ‘Where is the deviant?’ ”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He was a Murjiʾī—yet a righteous man—but in precision he was not on a par with others.”

Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.”

Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He transmitted from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, a fabricated collection of reports. He narrated it out of mistaken assumption, not willful intent.”

I (the author) say: The real question is whether that chain truly goes back to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; perhaps it was inserted into his material.

He died in 159 AH.

He had two brothers: ʿUthmān—al-Bukhārī cites him in his Ṣaḥīḥ—and Jabalah.

65 – Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah Dīnār, Abū Bishr al-Umawī * (ʿ)
An eminent imam, reliable, precise, and a ḥāfiẓ; Abū Bishr al-Umawī, their freedman, from Ḥimṣ, and a professional scribe.

His father’s name was Dīnār.

He heard hadith from al-Zuhrī—extensively so—as well as from Nāfiʿ, ʿIkrimah ibn Khālid, and Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir.