and al-Dawraqi, Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām, and a great many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Trustworthy.”
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable, truthful.”
Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh reported: I heard Qurrāh ibn Khālid say, “In our estimation Muʿtamir is in no way inferior to Sulaymān al-Taymī.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “He was reliable. He was born in 106 AH and died in Basra in 187 AH.”
Muḥammad ibn Maḥbūb said: “He died in Muḥarram of the year 187 AH.”
ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī said: “He passed away in Ṣafar of that same year, at the age of eighty-one.”
Saʿīd ibn ʿĪsā al-Kurayzī (1) said: “Muʿtamir died on the day Zabban al-Ṭaliqī was killed in Basra, so people would say, ‘Today the most devout of men has died and the most audacious of men has been slain.’”
In al-Khaṭīb’s book al-Sābiq wa-l-Lāḥiq it is stated that both Sufyān al-Thawrī and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated from him, and that ninety-six years separate their deaths, for al-Thawrī died in 161 AH.
The highest-ranking chain for Muʿtamir’s hadith available today is found in the Juzʾ of Ibn ʿArafah.
We were informed—by general authorization—by Aḥmad ibn Salamah and others, from ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb: ʿAlī ibn Bayān informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār informed us,