Among those who narrated from him were Musaddad, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Khalaf ibn Hishām, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, and many others besides them.

He was a distinguished, noble authority, counted among the sagacious nobles and their scholars.

Abū Ḥātim—overly strict as usual—said, “He is not to be relied upon.”

Ibn Saʿd remarked, “He was not strong in ḥadīth.”

I say: Yet the authors of the canonical Ṣaḥīḥ compilations (1) have accepted his narrations.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said about him, “Trustworthy; indeed, he is more reliable and narrates more ḥadīth than ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām.”

Ibn Saʿd likewise said, “Trustworthy, though he might occasionally err.”

He died in Baghdad.

Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah stated, “Trustworthy and truthful.”

I add: He passed away in Rajab of the year 181 AH, and he had probably completed seventy years of age.

Al-Bukhārī related that Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb said, “He died six months before Ḥammād ibn Zayd.”

We were informed by Ibn Abī al-Khayr and others, from Ibn Kulayb; Ibn Bayān informed us; Ibn Makhlad informed us; Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn