Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Dhuhalī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Marwazī, and a number of others.
He himself heard from al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī, a shaykh who transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī.
Al-Shīrāzī states in Al-Alqāb that he died in 238 AH.
I add: he reported abundantly from Ibn al-Mubārak and was trustworthy.
4 – Umayya ibn Bisṭām ibn al-Muntashir al-Baṣrī * (cited by al-Bukhārī and Muslim)
A ḥāfiẓ, reliable; Abū Bakr al-ʿAishī of Basra.
He narrated from his cousin, the ḥāfiẓ Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ; from Abū ʿAqīl Yaḥyā al-Mutawakkil; Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal; Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān; and their contemporaries.
Among those who transmitted from him were the Two Shaykhs in their Ṣaḥīḥs, Abū Zurʿa, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān⦗1⦘ al-Bāhilī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, and many others.
He was judged reliable by Ibn Ḥibbān and others. Ibn Ḥibbān said that he died in 231 AH.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us in 293 AH, saying: “ʿAbd al-Muʿizz …”