He narrated from: ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Hishām ibn Ḥassān, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Ayman ibn Nābil, Ashʿath ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥumrānī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Sallām, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd—who was older than he—Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Qutaybah, Abū Kurayb, ʿAlī ibn Maymūn al-Raqqī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Sūsī, Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ruhāwī, and many others.
He was white-haired and bearded, and he never dyed his grey hair.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Trustworthy.”
Abū ʿArūbah said, “An elder, devout, unobjectionable, though he relates from unknown individuals reports that are repudiated (1).”
Ibn ʿAdī said, “His kunya is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”
It was also said, “Among the Jazaris he is like Baqiyyah among the Syrians—a night-time wood-gatherer (2).”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “My father objected to al-Bukhārī’s including him in his book on weak narrators (al-Ḍuʿafāʾ) (3).”
Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr al-Ḥarrānī stated, “He died in 203 AH.”
Others said, “Rather, he died in 202 AH.”
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