He was also known as Abū ʿAlī. He was born during the caliphate of Hishām, sometime in the 120s AH, and he travelled in pursuit of knowledge.

He received narrations from Sulaymān al-Taymī, Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, ʿUmar ibn Dharr, Abū Ḥanīfa, Misʿar, Shuʿbah, and Sufyān al-Thawrī. He studied jurisprudence under Abū Ḥanīfa and reported extensively from al-Thawrī and Shuʿbah, though he was not regarded as especially exacting in the science of transmission.

Among those who narrated from him are Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Rajāʾ al-Harawī, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zanjawayh, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said, “He was one of Abū Ḥanīfa’s senior students and among those who kept close company with him.”

The district of al-Jārūd is named after him (1); it is the alley known as Sikkat al-Jārūdī in the Small Square Quarter, and his mosque stands at the head of the lane.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj stated that he died in 203 AH. Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad al-Mustamlī reported that he died in 206 AH, adding, “In that same year the governor Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn arrived.” (2)