and al-Aʿmash, Yazid ibn Kaysan, Fudayl ibn Ghazwan, Mujalid ibn Saʿid, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, ʿAbd ibn Humayd, Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Ramadi, al-Husayn ibn ʿAli al-Sudaʾi, Muʾammal ibn Ihab, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Junayd al-Daqqāq, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi al-ʿAwwam, and others.
Ibn al-Junayd al-Daqqāq said: “Ahmad ibn Hanbal was asked about him, and he replied, ‘He is trustworthy; we have written hadith from him. He has been a neighbour of Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd, so I asked Yaʿla about him, and he said, “What an excellent man! He has been our neighbour for fifty years, and we have seen nothing but good from him.”’ (1)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal also said, ‘We have recorded fine hadiths from him on the authority of Yazid ibn Kaysan, so write from him.’ (2)
Abu Ahmad ibn ʿAdi stated, ‘If he relates from a reliable source, there is no problem with him.’ (3)
Yahya ibn Maʿin, in the version narrated by Ahmad ibn Zuhayr, said: ‘He is weak.’
Muṭayyan said: ‘He died in 203 AH.’
165 – Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhzumi al-ʿAmri (ʿ)
son of ʿAmr ibn Hurayth ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthman ibn