Rāhwayh, Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd, Abū al-Taqī al-Yazanī (1), Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, Abū ʿUtbah al-Ḥijāzī, and a large number of others.
Ibn Saʿd records that he was appointed as judge of Damascus.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and other scholars declared him reliable, and he was regarded as an excellent transmitter of the ḥadith of the people of Syria.
Abū Ḥātim said, “His narrations are acceptable.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī affirmed, “He is trustworthy.”
Al-Kalābādhī observed: “His reports on Knowledge, Medicine, and the Fear Prayer (2)—meaning those found in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī—[are well-established].”
Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbih stated that he died in the year 194 AH.
Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Khaṭīb informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the ḥāfiẓ informed us; al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allah informed us; Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azharī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥamdūn informed us
(1) His name is Hisham b. Abd al-Malik b. Imran al-Himsi; he is judged trustworthy, though he sometimes errs, and he is listed among the narrators in Ibn Hajar’s Tahdhib.
(2) His hadith on knowledge is reported by al-Bukhari, 1/157, Book of Knowledge, chapter “When does a child’s audition become valid?”, through the chain: Muhammad b. Yusuf – Abu Mushir – Muhammad b. Harb – al-Zubaydi – al-Zuhri – Mahmud b. al-Rabi, who said: “I remember the Prophet ﷺ spitting a mouthful of water into my face when I was five years old.”
His hadith on medicine will be cited later by the author.
His narration concerning the prayer of fear is recorded by al-Bukhari, 2/361, “Prayer of Fear,” chapter “During the fear-prayer they guard one another,” through the chain: Haywa b. Shurayh – Muhammad b. Harb – al-Zubaydi – al-Zuhri – Ubayd Allah b. Abd Allah b. Utba – Ibn Abbas, who said: “The Prophet ﷺ stood to pray and the people stood with him. He pronounced the takbir and they did likewise, bowed and some of them bowed, then prostrated and they prostrated with him. When he rose for the second rakʿa, those who had prostrated with him stood and guarded their companions, while the other group came forward, bowing and prostrating with him. Thus everyone remained in prayer while each group protected the other.”