any information concerning the date of his death; it was roughly contemporaneous with that of his companion Hammām ibn Yaḥyā. (1)
163 – Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jamīl al-Jumaḥī (ʿ)
Son of ʿĀmir ibn Ḥidhyam ibn Salāmān ibn Rabīʿah ibn Saʿd ibn Jumāḥ. A ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), eminent imam, and firmly reliable authority from the Jumaḥ clan of Mecca.
He narrated from: Ibn Abī Mulaykah; Umayyah ibn Ṣafwān al-Jumaḥī; Bishr ibn ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Maḥdhūrah; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaykh al-Sahmī; Saʿīd ibn Ḥassān; and Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind. His report from Saʿīd appears in al-Bukhārī’s “Book of Manners,” and he was al-Bukhārī’s oldest shaykh.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Usāmah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Wakīʿ, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Muḥammad ibn Bishr, Bishr ibn al-Sarī, Surayj ibn al-Nuʿmān, Khallād ibn Yaḥyā, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, Yūnus ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib, Yasarah ibn Ṣafwān, Muḥriz ibn Salamah al-ʿAdanī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Uwaysī, al-Qaʿnabī, Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-ʿAwqī, Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī, and many others.
A large number of scholars flocked to him because of his precision and the loftiness of his isnāds.
Ibn Mahdī said, “He was among the most reliable of people.”
Abū Ṭālib transmits from Aḥmad: “Trustworthy, firmly grounded, his ḥadith are sound.”
And ʿAbd