ibn Salamah, Abū al-Ashhab al-ʿAṭāridī, Abān ibn Yazīd, ʿUqbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Rifāʿī, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥuddānī, Mālik ibn Anas, Sallām ibn Miskīn, ʿĀmir ibn Yasāf, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim, Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, Abū Juzʾ Naṣr ibn Ṭarīf, Abū Hilāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, Sharīk, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, Miskīn Abū Fāṭimah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Muslim, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Bakr al-Ṣaghānī, Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī the judge—also a Marwazī—Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrāzādh, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibn Shabīb al-Maʿmarī, and many others besides them.
Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī declared him reliable. Abū Ḥātim said: “Trustworthy, counted among the abdāl.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: “Abū Naṣr was of Khurasani stock, from Nasā. He related that he was born six months after the execution of Abū Muslim the propagandist.”
I say: Abū Muslim was killed in 137 AH.
He (Muḥammad ibn Saʿd) also said: “Abū Naṣr settled in Baghdad, in the suburb of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ṭūsī, on Darb al-Nasāʾiyyah, and traded there in dates and other goods. He was reliable, outstanding, devout, and God-fearing.
“He died in Baghdad on the first of Muḥarram, 228 AH, and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb. He was ninety-one years old, and had lost his sight.” (2)
Al-Baghawī and others recorded the same date.
Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī said: “Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal did not regard taking hadith in writing from Abū Naṣr…"