ʿAyyāsh, along with a number of his contemporaries.

Those who narrated from him include Ḥammād ibn Salamah—one of his own teachers—al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā, Bishr al-Ḥāfī, Sulaymān the son of the daughter of Shuraḥbīl, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, ʿAlī ibn Khushram, Musaddad, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, Muḥammad ibn Mihrān al-Jammāl, Muʾammal ibn al-Faḍl, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Yazīd ibn Mawhib, Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Abū Nuʿaym al-Ḥalabī, Aḥmad ibn Janāb, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah al-Ḍabbī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Umawī, Sufyān, Wakīʿ, al-Nufaylī, and many others besides them.

His own father, Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, also transmitted from him, although the father had died more than one hundred years before Ibn ʿArafah.

He was declared trustworthy by Aḥmad, Abū Ḥātim, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Khirāsh, and several others.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “His reports are sounder than his father’s.”

Someone asked him, “And what about Isrāʾīl?” He replied, “They are almost identical!”

Al-Marwazī relates from Aḥmad: “He is firmly reliable. We were informed that he would spend one year on military campaign and the next on pilgrimage. He once came to Baghdad on some affair concerning the fortifications; a sum of money was ordered for him but he refused to accept it.”

Al-Athram reports from Aḥmad that ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus used to relate with a chain of transmission the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: “The Prophet ﷺ would accept a gift and would reciprocate it.” (1)

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