He transmitted ḥadith from: Mujāhid, ʿIkrimah, Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī, al-Shaʿbī, al-Ḥasan, ʿAṭāʾ, Makḥūl, and Ibn Shihāb.

Those who narrated from him were: ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, and al-Thawrī—each of whom passed away long before him—together with al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Ibn Shābūr, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Abū al-Jahm, Ṣāliḥ ibn Mālik al-Khuwārizmī, and Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl.

Some of his higher-chained reports appear in the collection entitled al-Jaʿdiyyāt (1).

The critics unanimously held him to be weak.

Ibn al-Mubārak branded him a liar.

Ibn Maʿīn said: “His ḥadith is to be discarded.”

Al-Fallas remarked: “They abandoned him.”

Ibn ʿAmmār said: “His ḥadith is worthless.”

Ibn al-Mubārak also declared: “Highway robbery would be dearer to me than transmitting from him.”

Al-Nasāʾī said: “He is neither reliable nor trustworthy.”

I (the author) say: He lived on past 170 AH and reached an advanced old age.

12 – al-Layth ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fahmī * (ʿ)
The Imām, the Ḥāfiẓ, Shaykh al-Islām, and pre-eminent scholar of the realm,