He was declared trustworthy by Abū Dāwūd, and he is cited by Abū Dāwūd himself, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Qazwīnī.
He died in 221 AH, at an age somewhere in his eighties.
148 – ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn ibn Aws ibn al-Jaʿd al-Sulamī * (B, D)
A ḥāfiẓ, meticulous master, and leading imām; Abū ʿUthmān al-Sulamī, from Wāsiṭ, and a cloth-merchant.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Hushaym, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and others of their tier.
Those who reported from him include al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, and many others.
A number of authorities judged him reliable.
Yazīd ibn Hārūn said of him, “He is one of those who grow in virtue day after day.” (1)
Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī remarked, “He is trustworthy; rarely have I seen anyone more accurate than he.” (2)