Ibn Saʿd said, “He passed away in the year 213 AH (1). He possessed, on the authority of Sufyān, ten thousand hadiths.”
52 – ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah, Abū Ḥafṣ at-Tinnīsī * (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥadith master, and reliable transmitter, Abū Ḥafṣ at-Tinnīsī, was a client of Banū Hāshim. Originally from Damascus, he later settled in Tinnīs, hence his nisbah.
He related ḥadith from: al-Awzāʿī, Abū Muʿīd Ḥafṣ ibn Ghaylān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh as-Samīn, Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad at-Tamīmī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Mālik ibn Anas, Idrīs ibn Yazīd al-Awdi, Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include: his son Saʿīd, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ash-Shāfiʿī, Duḥaym, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Musnadī, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, adh-Dhuhlī, Ibn Wārah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Barqī, his brother Aḥmad, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maryam, Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Maqdisī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbbūd, and many others.
Humayd ibn Zanjūyah said: “When we returned from Egypt, we visited Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. He asked, ‘Did you pass by ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah?’ We replied, ‘He does not have even fifty hadiths committed to memory; the rest he transmits only by munāwala (handing over written material).’ He said, ‘You should have examined that munāwala and taken from it.’” (2)