al-ʿAlāʾ, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, and a number of others.
He presented his Qur’an recitation to Abū ʿAmr, who then taught him, and he also read to Ḥumayd ibn Qays al-Makkī.
He sat with ʿAmr ibn Dīnār in Mecca, though I do not think he ever narrated from him, for he used to say, “I sat with him but could not understand his speech.”
When this remark reached Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah he said, “He has spoken the truth. We met ʿAmr after his teeth had fallen out and only a single canine remained; had we not spent a long time in his company, we would never have been able to understand him.”
This report has a sound chain of transmission.
ʿAbd al-Wārith was born in 102 AH.
Those who recited the Qur’an to him were: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Qaṣabī, Abū Maʿmar al-Muqaʿd, and ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Qazzāz.
Among those who transmitted from him were: his son ʿAbd al-Ṣamad; Abū Maʿmar ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Muqaʿd—who is the principal transmitter of his works—Musaddad ibn Musarhad; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd; Bishr ibn Hilāl; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī; ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī; and many others besides them.
He was a knowledgeable and proficient scholar, one of the most eloquent men of his era, renowned for piety and scrupulousness—except that he adhered to the innovated Qadarī doctrine.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad informed us, saying:
Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghawī narrated to us; Bishr ibn Hilāl al-Ṣawwāf narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said: “May the slave of the dinar be cursed; may the slave of the dirham be cursed.” This