Ibn Abī Shaybah, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Khaythamah, ʿAmr ibn al-Nāqid, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Hārūn al-Ḥammāl, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr al-Azdī—his grandson—as well as many others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Trustworthy and reliable.” (1)
Ibn Maʿīn remarked, “He was a courageous man who would not flinch at facing twenty men.” (2)
He was also referred to as Ibn al-Karmānī.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd noted, “He reports Zāʾidah’s Musannaf and relates from Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī the book al-Sīrah fī Dār al-Ḥarb (Conduct in the Abode of War).”
He settled in Baghdad, and its inhabitants heard ḥadith from him. (3)
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr al-Azdī said, “I saw my grandfather—may Allah have mercy on him—Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr at my mother’s head while she was dying. He turned her face toward the qiblah (direction of prayer) and her legs toward the qiblah. When death approached, he screened her from us, performed the funeral prayer over her, and pronounced four takbīrs.”
He added, “He was born in 128 AH and died in 214 AH.” (4)
Ibn Saʿd said, “He passed away on the first of Jumādā al-Ūlā of that same year.” (5)