223 – ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghayāth, known as Abū Ḥafṣ – his narrations appear in the collections of al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī.

He related ḥadith from his father—the judge of Kūfah—as well as from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs, and others.

His kunyah was Abū Ḥafṣ, and he ranked among the firmly grounded scholars.

Both of the Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) include his reports in their Ṣaḥīḥs. All of the compilers of the Sunan, except Ibn Mājah, also transmit—through an unnamed intermediary—from him.

Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, Ismāʿīl Sammūyah, Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Abū Ḥātim, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, and others.

Abū Ḥātim declared him reliable. (1)

Abū Dāwūd said, “I followed him to his house, but I never had the chance to hear anything from him.” (2)

Al-Bukhārī stated that he died in 222 AH. (3)

I (the author) add: the compilers did not cite any of his narrations except those he reported from his father; he transmitted copiously from him and had full mastery of his father’s material.

He died in Kūfah at a little over fifty years of age.