I heard Jaʿfar ibn Abān relate: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī is a man worthy of being emulated.” (1)
Ibn Numayr said: “Wakīʿ, Ibn Mahdī, Abū Nuʿaym—and the fourth of them is al-Nufaylī.” (2)
Khalīfah stated: “He died in the year 234 AH.”
It was also said that he passed away in one of the two Rabīʿ months, and he was over ninety years of age.
222 – al-Jarmī, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd * (Bukhārī, Muslim)
The imām, ḥadith scholar, and truthful transmitter, Abū ʿUbayd Allah Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Jarmī al-Kūfī.
He narrated from: Sharīk, ʿAmr ibn Abī al-Miqdām, Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abjar, ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, Yaʿqūb ibn Abī al-Muttaʾid, the judge Abū Yūsuf, and several others.
Those who received ḥadith from him include al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah transmitted through an intermediary who reported from him, as did Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Mukharrimī, and others.