Abū Ḥātim said, “Trustworthy, an authority; he had his ḥadith perfectly memorised.” (1)
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī stated, “Trustworthy, a righteous man.” (2)
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn even narrated from him once, lavishing praise upon him. (3)
I add: he was thoroughly versed in the narrations of Hushaym.
Hātim ibn al-Layth said, “ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn died in the year 225 AH.” (4)
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād informed us; he was informed by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kāghadhī (5) informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūfī informed us; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar informed us; Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated to us, from Isrāʾīl, from al-Rukayn ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn ʿUmaylah, from his father, from Ibn Masʿūd:
from the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—who said:
“No one amasses usury in abundance without the end of his affair being reduced to poverty.”
Al-Qazwīnī (6) also recorded it, through ʿAbbās ibn Jaʿfar, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn.
(1) al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 6, p. 252.
(2) Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1047.
(3) Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1047.
(4) Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1047.
(5) al-kaghad or al-kaghadh denotes qirtas, the sheet used for writing, traditionally made from Egyptian papyrus. Al-Samʿani states in al-Ansab 10/326 that the nisba refers to the craft or trade of producing and selling this writing paper, which in the eastern lands was manufactured only in Samarqand.
(6) Recorded by Abu Dawud in his Sunan, no. 2279. Al-Busiri remarks in his Zawaid, fol. 145: “This isnad is sahih; its transmitters are reliable.” The hadith is also reported by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad 1/395 and 1/424 from Ibn Masʿud, by al-Hakim 2/36—who judged the chain sound, a verdict endorsed by al-Dhahabi—by Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah in his Musnad through the route of Sharik from al-Rukayn with identical chain and wording, and by Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili (“Bishr ibn al-Walid related to us; Sharik related to us; from al-Rukayn ibn al-Rabiʿ; from his father …”). Ibn Hajar grades the narration hasan in Fath al-Bari 4/266.