al-Qawārīrī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAdanī, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Ṣadaqah ibn al-Faḍl, Zayd ibn al-Ḥarīsh, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, Hārūn ibn Isḥāq, and many others.
Al-Athram said: “I heard Aḥmad mention him and speak well of him.” (1)
Al-Maymūnī transmits from Aḥmad that he said, “I met him in the year 187 AH.” (2)
Yahyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Reliable.” (3)
Abū Ḥātim said: “Truthful.” (4)
Al-Nasāʾī said: “There are two men named ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ—the Meccan and the Basran—and there is no problem with either of them.” (5)
Ibn Saʿd said: “Reliable, prolific in ḥadīth; a Basran who settled in Mecca and died there.” (6)
I say: He died sometime after 190 AH, it appears to me.
101 – Muḥammad ibn Kathīr ibn Abī ʿAṭāʾ al-Ṣanʿānī* (D, T, S)
The Imām and ḥadīth scholar, Abū Yūsuf al-Ṣanʿānī, later resident of Maṣṣīṣah.