al-Raḥmān, as well as Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include: ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās, Bundār, Ḥafṣ al-Rabālī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar Rusta, Bakr ibn Khalf, and others besides.

Muslim cited him only as a supporting narrator—as far as I can recall—not in the principal chains, for the man is of soft reliability.

Abū Ḥātim said: “His ḥadith may be written down.”

Abū Zurʿah said: “His reports are generally acceptable, except for two ḥadiths.”

Al-Fallās said: “He is not to be discarded.”

Al-Kawsaj reported from Ibn Maʿīn: “He is weak.”

Al-ʿUqaylī said: “He is not corroborated in his narrations.”

Ibn ʿAdī said: “Most of his ḥadiths are sound, apart from the ones I have indicated.”

I (the author) say: Among the narrations cited against him is what al-Fallās and others relate from him—“Hishām told us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, traced back to the Prophet ﷺ: ‘Eat fresh dates together with dried ones, for Satan becomes angry and says, “The son of Adam has lived long enough to eat the new along with the old.”’” (1)