I said: Abu Bakr’s comment, “he possesses astonishing narrations,” could be understood as a mild weakening and should not be accepted unless further explained. The man himself is trustworthy, truthful, and a hadith scholar, though he does report singular traditions from transmitters who can bear them.

Al-Tahawi said: He died in Rajab of the year 259 AH.

Ibn Yunus gave the same date.

He was a merchant. (1)

Our teacher al-Mizzi said: It is claimed that al-Nasa’i narrated from him, but I have not found any evidence for that.

I say: Al-Nasa’i did indeed transmit— in his Musnad of Malik—through Zakariyya, from him.

221 – al-Nufayli, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Nufayl ibn Zarraʿ ibn ʿAli * (Kh, 4)

Another view traces him as ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays ibn ʿUṣm. He was an imam, a ḥāfiẓ, the foremost scholar of Upper Mesopotamia; Abū Jaʿfar al-Qudaʿi, later known as al-Nufayli of Harran, one of the eminent authorities.

He narrated from: Malik ibn Anas, Maʿqil ibn ʿUbayd Allah, ʿUfair ibn Maʿdan, Zuhayr ibn Muʿawiyah, Khulayḍ ibn Daʿlaj, Abū Mahdī Saʿid ibn Sinan al-Ḥimṣī, ʿIkrimah ibn Ibrahim al-Azdi, Muhammad ibn ʿImran al-Ḥujubi— the last to narrate from Safiyyah bint Shaybah—Hushaym ibn Bashir, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Rijal, and Zayd ibn