ʿUmar al-Azdī al-Namirī—descended from the clan of an-Namir ibn Ghaymān, of Basra, and widely known as al-Ḥawḍī.
He narrated from Hishām ad-Dastuʾāʾī; Abū Ḥurra ar-Raqāshī, Wāṣil ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān; Shuʿbah; Hammām; Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm at-Tustarī; Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī; and others of their rank.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Bukhārī again, and—through an intermediary—an-Nasāʾī; likewise Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Ṣāʿiqah, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Makkī, Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ad-Dawraqī, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khurraẓādh, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ar-Rāzī, Abū Khalīfah, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khuzāʿī, and many others.
Abū Ṭālib reported that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “He is firmly reliable and precise; not a single letter can be faulted in his narrations.” (1)
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī stated, “The scholars of Basra unanimously attest to the uprightness of Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ.” (2)
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Jarīr ibn Jabalah said, “Abū ʿUmar was the client of the Namir clan, the possessor of a written collection, meticulous; I saw him with a white head of hair and beard.”
He added, “He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 225 AH.” (3)