ʿAmr al-Qaysī, al-ʿAqadī, a Basran.
He transmitted ḥadith from Zakariyya ibn Isḥāq, Ayman ibn Nābil, Aflah ibn Ḥumayd, Qurrah ibn Khālid, Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥumayd, ʿUmar ibn Abī Zāʾidah, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, Rabāḥ ibn Abī Maʿrūf, Aflah ibn Saʿīd, Shuʿbah, Mālik, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and others of their generation.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad (Ibn Ḥanbal), Ibn Rāhwayh, Abū Khaythamah, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn Shaddād al-Mismaʿī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhli, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, and many others.
He was numbered among the senior shaykhs of Islam and the reliable transmitters.
Al-Nasāʾī mentioned him, saying, “Reliable, trustworthy.”
Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz—who himself narrated from him—said, “He was a client (mawlā) of the ʿAqadiyyūn of Banū Qays, and he did not dye his hair.”
Another said, “He was among the ḥuffāẓ of Basra.” ⦗1⦘
I say: His ḥadiths appear with an elevated chain in the Ghailāniyyāt. ⦗2⦘