—in that same year; al-Aṣamm heard this report directly from him.
Al-Fasawī likewise transmitted from Duḥaym, who said: “Al-Walīd ibn Mazyad is trustworthy; he passed away in 187 AH.”
I add: the first report is the more firmly established.
148 – Muḥammad ibn Bakr ibn ʿUthmān al-Bursānī * (ʿ)
An Imām, ḥadith scholar, and reliable authority, Abū ʿAbd Allāh—also known as Abū ʿUthmān—Muḥammad ibn Bakr ibn ʿUthmān al-Bursānī, al-Azdī, from Basra.
Bursān is a branch of the Azd tribe.
He transmitted from Ibn Jurayj, Hishām ibn Ḥassān, Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Ziyād, Ayman ibn Nābil, Shuʿbah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him are: Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Bundār, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Hārūn al-Ḥammāl, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Rammādī, and a great many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Al-Bursānī narrated to us, and—by Allah—he was refined, cultured, and trustworthy.” (1)