Those who narrated from him were: his own son⦗1⦘; Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī, Abū Ḥāzim ibn Abī Ghrazah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī in his History, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī—according to one report—Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamtām, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Junayd, Ibrāhīm ibn Danūqā, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Muʾaddib, a client of the Banū Hāshim, and others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable, as related by ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Manṣūr from him⦗2⦘.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.”⦗3⦘
Ibn Ḥibbān remarked, “His ḥadith are sound.”⦗4⦘
It is claimed that al-Bukhārī narrated from him, but that is not established; rather, al-Bukhārī transmitted only from the scribe of al-Layth.
The subject of this entry later resided in Baghdad and taught the Qur’an there. Among those who recited to him were al-Ṭayyib ibn Ismāʿīl and Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr al-Rāzī.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said, “My father died in 211 AH.”
Thus he recorded his father’s death—Allah knows best—although among those listed as narrators from ʿAbd Allāh are men who did not begin taking ḥadith until after that date. It may be that he meant to say he died in 221.
Furthermore, Ibn Abī Ḥātim includes him in his book, stating that Abū Zurʿah and Abū Ḥātim both transmitted from him⦗5⦘, while Abū Ḥātim’s first journey for ḥadith was in the year 213, and