In al-Jaʿdiyyāt (1) there are several elevated isnāds transmitted by Yazīd from Ibn Sīrīn and a number of others.
Seventh Tier
91 – Sulaymān ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī al-Baṣrī (ʿ)
A ḥāfiẓ, a well-known leading authority, reliable.
He narrated from: al-Zuhrī, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, and Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Narrations were taken from him by: his brother Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, Ibn Mahdī, Ḥabbān, ʿAffān, Abū Salamah, Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Wāsiṭī, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “There is no harm in him; his kunyah is Abū Dāwūd, but his reports from al-Zuhrī are somewhat problematic.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “He is weak in ḥadith.”
Al-Dhuhlī remarked: “He settled in Basra, and in what he relates from al-Zuhrī he shows inconsistency in certain matters; with narrators other than al-Zuhrī he is firmer.”
Al-ʿUqaylī said: “Sulaymān ibn Kathīr al-Wāsiṭī—so he is designated—[is] inconsistent.”
= Some of them. He states in al-Mughni, 6/211: When the paternal grandmother’s son (the deceased’s father) is alive, she nevertheless inherits. This was the opinion of Umar, Ibn Masud, Abu Musa, Imran ibn Husayn and Abu al-Tufayl; it was likewise adopted by Shurayh, al-Hasan, Ibn Sirin, Jabir ibn Zayd, al-Anbari, Ishaq, and Ibn al-Mundhir, and it is the apparent position of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Zayd ibn Thabit, however, held that she does not inherit.
The same non-inheriting view is also reported from Uthman and Ali, and it is the position of Malik, al-Thawri, al-Awza‘i, Sa‘id ibn Abd al-Aziz, al-Shafi‘i, Ibn Jabir, Abu Thawr and the Hanafi jurists; it is one of the two narrations from Ahmad, transmitted by several of his disciples.
(See: Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq, 10/276–279.)
(1) For the definition of “al-Ja‘diyyat,” see p. 284, no. 1.
(*) Al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 4/33–34; al-Du‘afa, no. 163; al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dil, 4/138; al-Majruhin wa al-Du‘afa, 1/334; al-Kamil by Ibn Adi, no. 321; Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 548; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/54; Mizaan al-I‘tidal, 2/220–221; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4/215–216; Khalasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 154.