Al-Bukhari said, “He is rejected in ḥadīth; Abū Usāmah used to accuse him of fabrication.” (1)

ʿAbbās transmitted from Yaḥyā: “He is nothing.” (2)

Al-ʿUqaylī reports: Bishr ibn Mūsā told us, Muḥammad ibn Muqātil al-Marwazī told us, al-Jārūd told us, Bahz ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us, from his father, from his grandfather, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Do you shrink from mentioning a flagrant sinner? Mention him as he is, so that the people may beware of him.”

Al-ʿUqaylī remarked (3): “This has no basis.”

I add: Salamah ibn Shabīb also related it from him.

Abū Ḥātim said, “His ḥadīth is not to be written down.” (4)

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Abandoned in ḥadīth.”

153 – ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim al-Ḥarrānī * (4)

al-Ṭarāʾifī (5), the tutor, a client of Banū Umayyah.

It is also said that his clientage was to Banū Taym.

There are several opinions regarding his kunya.