and among those who transmitted from him were Abū Salamah, Qutaybah, al-Qawārīrī, and others. He was considered truthful. He died in the year one-hundred-and-seventy-odd AH, while Muḥammad ibn al-Rūmī lived on until just before 220 AH.
122 – Sahl ibn Bakkār, Abū Bishr al-Baṣrī * (Kh, D, S)
A ḥāfiẓ and reliable authority, Abū Bishr al-Baṣrī was one of the last surviving scholars of his generation.
He narrated from: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, Abān al-ʿAṭṭār, Juwayriyah ibn Asmāʾ, al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā, and others.
Narrators who reported from him include: al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Tammār, and many more.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is trustworthy.” (1)
Al-Nasāʾī also transmitted from him.
He died in 227 AH, though some said 228 AH.
123 – Sahl ibn Tammām ibn Bazīʿ, Abū ʿAmr al-Ṭufāwī ** (D)
The imām Abū ʿAmr al-Ṭufāwī al-Baṣrī—an elderly shaykh, advanced in years, and of fair reliability.