He narrated from Salamah ibn Wardān, al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Makhzūmī, and a number of other scholars of Madinah.

He never travelled in search of hadith, yet he was truthful, well-informed, and earnest in his pursuit of knowledge.

Those who transmitted from him include: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Abū ʿUtbah Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Hārūn al-Ḥammāl, Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā al-Bisṭāmī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, and many others besides.

Abū Dāwūd said, “He heard a single hadith from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah.” (1)

I say: that was the earliest shaykh he encountered.

Al-Bukhārī stated, “He died in the year 200 AH.” (2)

Ibn Saʿd reported, “He passed away in 199 AH, and he is not a decisive authority (ḥujjah).” That is exactly what Ibn Saʿd said. (3)

Nevertheless, the major compilers used Ibn Abī Fudayk’s narrations as evidence, and more than one critic judged him reliable. Even so, Maʿn (4) was more accurate and meticulous than he was. We have obtained a number of his highly elevated chains in various works.

181 – Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd (ʿ)

An imām and trustworthy transmitter, the brother of Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī,