and Baqiyy ibn Makhlad, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad—known as Jazara—Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm—nicknamed Ṣāʿiqa—Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and many others as well.

Al-Bukhārī likewise narrated—together with al-Nasāʾī—from an unnamed intermediary who reported from him.

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd mentioned him in his “Classes,” saying: “Trustworthy, firmly grounded, a man of Sunnah and merit.”

ʿUbayd ibn Sharīk al-Bazzār said: “Such was Abū Maʿmar al-Qaṭīʿī’s sheer confidence in the Sunnah that he would remark, ‘If my mule could talk, it would say: I am a Sunnī.’” He added: “He was summoned during the Qurʾān inquisition and capitulated; but once released he said, ‘We have fallen into unbelief and have now emerged.’”

Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Bardhaʿī narrated from Abū Zurʿa that:
“Ahmad ibn Hanbal would not permit the recording of hadith from Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, nor from Abū Maʿmar, nor from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, nor from anyone who had been tested and complied.”

Abū Yaʿlā said: “Abū Maʿmar delivered about two thousand hadith from memory in Mosul. When he returned to Baghdad he wrote to the people of Mosul, supplying the sound texts of some thirty or forty hadith in which he had erred.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “I heard Abū Maʿmar al-Hudhalī say:
‘Whoever claims that Allah does not speak, does not hear, does not see, is not pleased, and is not angered is a disbeliever. If you see such a man standing at a well, throw him into it; this is the religion by which I worship Allah.’”

It is also related from Abū Maʿmar al-Qaṭīʿī that he said: “The final word of the Jahmiyyah is that there is no deity in the heaven.”

I say: Rather, their contention is that He is in the heaven and on the earth alike, with no distinction for the heaven.

Whereas the vast majority of the Ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ say: “Allah is in the heaven,” affirming it exactly as the revealed texts state it, without plunging into interpretative speculation