Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ashʿarī once came in to see him and he asked, “What is your name?”
He answered, “Muʿāwiyah.”
He replied, “By Allah, I will never relate any traditions to you, nor to any group in which you are present.”
216 – ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris ibn Laqīṭ ibn Qays al-ʿAbdī * (ʿ)
Abu Muḥammad al-ʿAbdī, the Basran ḥāfiẓ.
It is also reported that his kunya was Abū ʿAdī, and others said Abū ʿAbd Allāh. Some maintained that his family’s origin was Bukhārā.
He was born sometime after 120 AH.
He heard hadith from Ibn ʿAwn, Hishām ibn Ḥassān, Khammas ibn al-Ḥasan, Yūnus ibn Yazīd, Qurra ibn Khālid, ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak al-Hunāʾī, Shuʿbah, Isrāʾīl, ʿAzrah ibn Thābit, Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-ʿAbdī, Abū ʿĀmir al-Khazzāz, Dāwūd ibn Qays, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Abū Khaythamah, al-Fallas, Bundār, Ibn al-Muthannā, al-Ramādī, Sulaymān ibn Sayf al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukhar-rimī, Yazīd ibn Sinān al-Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, al-Ṣanʿānī, al-Kudaymī, al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rūḥ al-Madāʾinī, Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz, and a great many others.