ʿAmr, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, and others of their generation.
He was counted among the great repositories of knowledge.
He learned the Qur’anic reading by direct presentation to Abū Jaʿfar the reciter (1)—as reported by Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Jurayj—who was actually one of his own teachers—Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr, and many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “He is the most reliable of people in the narrations of Hishām ibn ʿUrwah.”
Ibn Saʿd remarked, “He was a jurist and a muftī.”
Ibn Mahdī, however, deemed him “weak.”
I (the author) say: al-Nasāʾī and others nevertheless used his reports as evidence, and his ḥadīth fall into the fair category.
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said: I heard Ibn al-Madīnī state, “What he related in Medina is acceptable, but what he narrated in Iraq is inconsistent.” (2)
Ṣāliḥ Jazara (3) added, “He transmitted from his father matters that no one else reported.”