He heard from: ʿĪsā ibn Ṭahmān—the companion of Anas—Fitr ibn Khalīfah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and a great many others, and he devoted himself wholeheartedly to hadith.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Zurʿah’s uncle Ismāʿīl ibn Yazīd, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, and others.
Abū Dāwūd and Abū ʿĪsā also transmitted a report through an unnamed intermediary from him.
Abū Ḥātim and Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq likewise related from him.
Abū Dāwūd said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr said, “He is truthful, though there is a small amount of error in his narrations.” (2)
Al-Bukhārī said, “He settled in Mecca and died there, shortly before the year 213 AH.” (3)
Ḥanbal said, “He died in 217 AH.” (4)
Khalid ibn Makhlad al-Qaṭawānī al-Kūfī, who died in 213 AH, will be mentioned later. (5)
28 – Idrīs ibn Yaḥyā, Abū ʿAmr al-Umawī, their freedman *
The Imām, the exemplar, the ascetic, the shaykh of Egypt, Abū ʿAmr al-Umawī, their freedman,