ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “I heard my father remark, ‘When ʿUqayl (1) and Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd were mentioned in the presence of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, he acted as though he deemed them both weak.’ My father then added, ‘Of what use is that? These men are reliable; Yaḥyā never really examined them.’
82 – ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Abī al-Walīd al-Asadī, their client, the scholar of al-Raqqa, the great ḥāfiẓ, Abū Wahb.
He transmitted from: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr; Zayd ibn Abī Unaysa; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mālik; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl; Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī; Layth ibn Abī Sulaym; Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Farwah; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid; al-Aʿmash; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; and Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd.
He also narrated from those of a lower rank, such as: Maʿmar and al-Thawrī.
He was trustworthy, an authoritative proof, and devoted to ḥadīth.
Among those who reported from him are: Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl; Zakariyyā ibn ʿAdī; his brother Yūsuf ibn ʿAdī; Jandal ibn Wāthiq; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥarrānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Hilāl; ʿAmr ibn Quṣayṭ; ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad ibn Shaddād; Ḥakīm ibn Sayf; ʿAlī ibn al-Zaʿzāʿ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaym; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh of al-Raqqa; Abū Tawbah al-Rabīʿ ibn Nāfiʿ; ʿUbayd ibn Hishām; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, the nephew of the Imām — the people of Aleppo — and ʿAlī ibn