Salamah ibn Shabīb, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ad-Dabarī, Ibrāhīm ibn Suwayd ash-Shibāmī (1), al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Bawsī (2), Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Barra as-Ṣanʿānī, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī, Ḥajjāj ibn ash-Shāʿir, Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād at-Ṭihrānī (3), and Muʾammal ibn Ihāb.
Aḥmad said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us that he was born in the year 126 AH (4).
Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah reported that ʿAbd al-Razzāq said, “I remained in the company of Maʿmar for eight years.” This was related to us by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā and Ibn Maʿīn (5).
ʿAbbās transmitted from Ibn Maʿīn, who said: “In Maʿmar’s traditions ʿAbd al-Razzāq is more accurate than Hishām ibn Yūsuf, but in the traditions of Ibn Jurayj Hishām ibn Yūsuf is more accurate than he is, has a firmer grasp of Ibn Jurayj’s books than ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and is more knowledgeable than ʿAbd al-Razzāq concerning the ḥadith of Sufyān ath-Thawrī (6).”
Abū Zurʿah ad-Dimashqī said: Aḥmad informed us, “We visited ʿAbd al-Razzāq before the year 200 AH, when his eyesight was sound. Anyone who heard from him after he had lost his sight is weak in audition (7).”
Ḥanbal said: I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh say, “When the companions…"