an eminent Imām and reliable narrator, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī al-ʿUmarī al-Madanī, the brother of the Medinan scholar ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, as well as of ʿĀṣim and Abū Bakr.

He was born while Sahl ibn Saʿd and Anas ibn Mālik were still alive.

He related ḥadīth from Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmarī, Saʿīd al-Maqburī, Wahb ibn Kaysān, al-Zuhrī, Abū al-Zubayr, his brother ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, and many others.

Among those who transmitted from him are: Wakīʿ, Ibn Wahb, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, al-Qaʿnabī, Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Farawī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Uwaysī, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, and a large number besides.

He was learned, devout, upright, and his narrations were sound.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “There is no harm in him.”

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “ṣuwailiḥ”—moderately reliable.

Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān would not transmit from him, whereas ʿAbd al-Raḥmān did.

Ibn al-Madīnī deemed him “weak.”

Aḥmad also said, “He was a righteous man. During his brother’s lifetime people would ask him about ḥadīth and he would respond, ‘So long as Abū ʿUthmān is alive, then no.’ ” Aḥmad added, “He used to add names to the chains of transmission and differ from others.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is not strong.”

Ibn Ḥibbān (1) reported that he narrates from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, a prophetic ḥadīth traced back to the Prophet: “Whoever goes to a fortune-teller …” (2).