as well as Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazrah, Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Yaʿlā, and others besides them.

Abū Ḥātim—and others—declared him reliable.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “My father heard his narrations in Baghdad in the year 215 AH, after he had lost his sight, relying solely on what he had memorized.”

Abū Dāwūd said: “I heard a trustworthy informant relate that Hārūn ibn Maʿrūf said:
‘I saw in a dream that someone was saying to me, “Whoever prefers ḥadīth to the Quran will be punished.”’
He added, ‘So I assumed that the loss of my eyesight was on account of that.’”

Hārūn al-Ḥammāl said: “I heard Hārūn ibn Maʿrūf declare: ‘Whoever claims that the Quran is created is, in effect, worshipping al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā.’”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad narrated from him that he said: “Whoever alleges that Allah does not speak is worshipping idols.”

He died at the end of the month of Ramadan in 231 AH, at the age of seventy-four.

48 – Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr ibn Zuhayr ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī (M, S)

The son of Jamil ibn al-Aʿraj ibn ʿĀṣim, the shaykh, ḥadīth memorizer, and trustworthy authority Abū Sulaymān al-Ḍabbī of Baghdad, a first cousin of the ḥadīth scholar of Isfahān, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Ḍabbī.

Dāwūd was born a little before 150 AH, approximately.