Bundar said, “He is weak.”
Al-Fallas remarked, “No one who really understands hadith will transmit from him (1).”
Ibn Ḥibbān stated, “It is reported that al-Thawrī married his (i.e., Abū Hudhayfah’s) mother when he came to Basra (2).”
It is also said that Abū Hudhayfah worked as a schoolteacher.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 220 AH, and al-Bukhārī recorded his death in that same year.
Another report has it that he lived to be ninety-two.
20 – Yaḥyā ibn Ḥammād ibn Abī Ziyād al-Shaybānī* (Kh, M, T, S, Q)
An imam and ḥāfiẓ, known as Abū Muḥammad and Abū Bakr al-Shaybānī, a client of the Banū Shaybān in Basra and the son-in-law of Abū ʿAwānah.
He narrated from: Shuʿbah; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Ḥammād ibn Salamah; ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār; Hammām ibn Yaḥyā; Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ; al-Layth ibn Saʿd; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār; and, most frequently, Abū ʿAwānah.
Among those who reported from him are: al-Bukhārī; Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh; Bundar; Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā; Ḥumayd ibn Zanjūyah; Isḥāq al-Kawsaj; Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī; Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Sarmārī (3); Bakkār ibn Qutaybah; and al-Ḥasan