; al-Marwazi; Ahmad ibn ʿAli Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili; Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Abbar; Musa ibn Zakariyya al-Tustari; Musa ibn Harun; al-Baghawi; and many others.
Abu al-Hasan al-Maymuni said: “I asked Abu ʿAbd Allah about Kamil ibn Talhah, and he answered:
‘In my estimation he is trustworthy. I knew him in the year 200 AH in Basra; he had a large teaching circle in the congregational mosque and would narrate from al-Layth, Ibn Luhayʿah, and Malik.’
ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal recounted: “I heard my father—when he was asked about Kahil ibn Talhah and about Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyub—say, ‘I know of no one who rejects either of them on the strength of evidence.’”
Ahmad ibn Asram said: “I heard Ahmad ibn Hanbal remark about Kamil ibn Talhah, ‘His hadith is close to sound.’”
Abu Dawud reported: “I heard Ahmad—when he was asked about Kamil ibn Talhah—say,
‘I saw him in Basra where he maintained a circle, and he used to go to ʿAbadan to narrate to them. His reports are of middling reliability.’”
Abu ʿUbayd al-Ajurri stated: “I asked Abu Dawud about Kamil, and he replied,
‘I have thrown away his notebooks, although I heard Ahmad praise him. Azhar al-Sammān wrote down two hadiths from him.’”
Ibrahim al-Harbi said: “I heard Ahmad ibn Hanbal say,
‘I told ʿAbd Allah, “Go to the mosque and write from these shaykhs until your hand becomes light.” So he wrote from Kamil ibn Talhah, and the first hadith he related was from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
‘Whenever the Prophet ﷺ went out to the prayer-ground, he would take one route and return by another.’ (1)
Ahmad remarked, ‘I have never heard this at all.’
I said, ‘A hadith like this …’”