and Abū Hilāl al-Rāsibī, Wuhayb ibn Khālid, Abū ʿAwanah, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim, Hishām ibn Ziyād, and Ibn al-Mubārak.
Hadith were narrated from him by Abū Dāwūd—and, by way of his transmissions, al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasāʾī—as well as Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Abū Zurʿah, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrazādh, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Būshanjī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim and others said: “He is truthful (ṣadūq) in hadith.” (1) He possessed from Ḥammād ibn Salama a corpus of nine thousand reports.
Abū Dāwūd remarked: “He was an avid seeker of hadith, learned in Arabic and in the chronicles of people—were it not for the way he ruined himself—and he is truthful.” (2)
Zakariyyā al-Sājī said: “He was accused of Qadarism, (3) yet he was clear of it. He was indisputably one of the nobles of Basra, and he was gracious and generous.” (4)
I say: We heard al-ʿAyshī’s transcript by ijāzah, and we have received, with continuous chains, some of his higher transmissions.
Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abrqūhī informed us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, and ʿUbayd Allāh al-ʿAyshī all narrated to us, saying:
“Ḥammād narrated to us…”