I add: he remained alive until sometime after 180 AH.
66 – al-ʿAttāf ibn Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Makhzūmī* (T, S)
The son of al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wābiṣa ibn Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm; the Imām, Abū Ṣafwān al-Makhzūmī of Medina, counted among the reliable senior transmitters.
He reported from Nāfiʿ, Zayd ibn Aslam, Abū Ḥāzim al-Madani, and a group of others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Yamān, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Qutaybah, Abū Muṣʿab, and others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal declared him trustworthy.
Abū Dāwūd said, “There is nothing wrong with him.”
Al-Bukhārī remarked, “Mālik did not commend him.”
Abū Aḥmad, in al-Kunā, wrote, “They did not consider him strong; Mālik disparaged him.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is not of that calibre.”
I say: he alone, through Nāfiʿ from Ibn ʿUmar, transmitted the report that the Prophet ﷺ exacted legal retaliation for a mere scratch (1). This is objectionable, and the only person who quoted it from him was Makhlad ibn Mālik.
Al-ʿAttāf transmitted about one hundred ḥadiths. In terms of reliability he is roughly on a par with Fulayḥ and Ibn Abī Ḥāzim.
(1) A minor wound for which the Prophet ﷺ allegedly ordered qiṣāṣ (retaliation).