Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah said, “He was well-versed in the hadith of al-Zuhrī.”
Al-Nasāʾī added, “Reliable, firmly established.”
I say: He died in the prime of life, and his passing occurred not long after that of Ibn Jurayj.
86 – Abū al-Ashhab Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭāridī * (ʿ)
He is the imām, the authoritative proof, Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭāridī al-Baṣrī, the cobbler, the blind man, one of the last of the senior scholars.
He narrated from Abū al-Jawzāʾ al-Rabaʿī, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī, Abū Naḍra al-ʿAbdī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṭarfah, Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ, and many others.
A large number transmitted from him, among them: Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū al-Walīd, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Abū Salamah al-Minqarī, and Shaybān ibn Farrūkh.
He was judged trustworthy by Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, and others.
He belongs to the same class (1) as Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim in reliability and truthfulness.
It was said that he was born in the year 70 AH; on that reckoning he witnessed a little over twenty years of