a ḥadith master, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Taymī al-Kūfī, the client of Taym Allāh, the brother of the skilled ḥadith memorizer Zakariyyā ibn ʿAdī.
He settled in Egypt and related traditions there, while his brother resided in Baghdad; both, however, were originally from Kūfa.
He narrated from Sharik, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, ʿAmr ibn Abī al-Miqdām, Mālik ibn Anas, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād, Ayyūb ibn Jābir al-Ḥanafī, his brother Muḥammad ibn Jābir, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Shihāb ibn Khirāsh, al-Darāwardī, Muḥammad ibn al-Furāt, ʿUbayda ibn al-Aswad, and many others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Miqlāṣ, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAllān, Abū Zurʿa, Abū Ḥātim, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khattalī, Aḥmad ibn al-Barqī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Raqqī, Isḥāq ibn Sayyār al-Naṣībī, Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Ghāfiqī, al-Ḥasan ibn Sulaymān al-Fazārī (Qubbayṭa), al-Ḥasan ibn Ghufayr al-Miṣrī the perfume-seller, Abū al-Zinbaʿ Rūḥ ibn al-Faraj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥumayd al-ʿAkki, Abū Khaythama ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr ibn Khālid al-Ḥarrānī, his brother Abū ʿUlātha Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿUkbarī, Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, and a great many others.
Abū Zurʿa remarked, “Reliable; he travelled to Egypt on business and died there.” (1)
Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt: “He died in 222 AH.” (2)