He kept company with Ibn al-Mubārak. Ibn Rāhawayh, Aḥmad ibn Shabbūyah, and a number of others narrated from him, and it is said that he lived for one hundred years.
162 – ʿAbd al-Majīd, son of the Imām ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād * (M, 4)
A scholar, exemplar, hadith master, and truthful narrator; the Shaykh of the Sacred Mosque. His kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Majīd. He was a Meccan and a client of al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah.
He transmitted Ibn Jurayj’s material directly from his books, and also related from his father, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, Ayman ibn Nābil, Marwān ibn Sālim, ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad, and others.
Among those who reported from him are Abū Bakr al-Humaydī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAdanī, Ḥājib al-Manbijī, Aḥmad ibn Shaybān al-Ramlī, al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Raqqī, and many more.
He was affiliated with the Murjiʾah, yet even so both Aḥmad and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy. Aḥmad said, “He went to extremes in irjāʾ; he would say, ‘These people are doubters,’ ” meaning the scholars’ statement, “I am a believer, if Allah wills.” ⦗1⦘