Al-Khaṭṭābī said: He passed away in 163 AH, though some place his death in 160 AH.

152 – Sakhr ibn Juwayriya, Abū Nāfiʿ al-Tamīmī * (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Tirmidhī)

An eminent, trustworthy hadith scholar, Abū Nāfiʿ al-Tamīmī was their freedman. Others say he was the freedman of the Basran clan Banū Hilāl. A venerable, long-lived shaykh, he was regarded as truthful.

He narrated from Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī, ʿĀʾisha bint Saʿd (1), and Nāfiʿ, the freedman of Ibn ʿUmar.

Those who transmitted from him include Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī—who was actually one of his own teachers—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, ʿAffān ibn Muslim, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and others.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Reliable, reliable.” Ibn Maʿīn said, “Sound.” Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr quotes Ibn Maʿīn as saying, “The only reservation about him is the claim that he lost his notebook.”

I say: the compilers of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections accepted his narrations, and he died sometime in the 160s AH.

Ibn al-Bukhārī wrote to me: “Abū Ḥafṣ al-Muʿallim informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb informed us; Ibn Hazārmardah informed us; Ibn Ḥabābah informed us; al-Baghawī informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; Sakhr ibn Juwayriya told me, ‘I heard Abū Rajāʾ say:
‘Ibn ʿAbbās narrated to us; he said:’”