He narrated from Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Najīḥ al-Makkī, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Ibn ʿAwn, Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, ʿAlī ibn Muslim al-Ṭūsī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, and many more besides them.

Abū Dāwūd and others declared him trustworthy.

Ibn Saʿd said, “He was among the noblest of men in every respect.” He added, “He inclined toward Shīʿism, so al-Rashīd imprisoned him for a time and then released him, after which he remained in Baghdad.”

I (the author) say: I believe he had accompanied Ibrāhīm, and that is why he was jailed.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah related: “Wakīʿ asked me about ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām and then remarked, ‘None of you has anyone comparable to him.’ ”

I (the author) say: He died in one of the years of the one-hundred-and-eighties AH.

ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us; Mūsā informed us; Ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī informed us; al-Mukhalliṣ related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī Samīnah narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām narrated to us, from Ḥajjāj, from Qatādah, from Zurārah, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform the witr prayer with three rakʿahs: in the first he would recite “Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High” (Sabbiḥ), in the second “Say: O disbelievers” (Qul yā ayyuhā l-kāfirūn), and in the third “Say: He is Allah, the One” (Qul huwa Allāhu aḥad). (1)