I say: Surayj was one of the devout imams, a man of notable spiritual states, and a leading authority in the Sunnah.
Al-Bukhārī said: He died in the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in the year 235 AH.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAlawī and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ informed us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar informed us; Abū al-Waqt informed us; Ibn ʿAfīf informed us; Ibn Abī Shurayḥ informed us; ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghawī narrated to us; then ʿAmr al-Nāqid, Surayj ibn Yūnus, Ibn ʿAbbād, and Ibn al-Muqriʾ related to us, saying: Sufyān narrated to us from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, who said: ʿAmr ibn Aws told me, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr told me, saying: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded me to seat ʿĀʾishah behind me so that I might take her from al-Tanʿīm to perform ʿumrah.”
Al-Bukhārī recorded this report.
55 – ʿAmr al-Nāqid ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn Bukayr* (B, M, D)
He is the imam, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative scholar, Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn Bukayr ibn Sābūr al-Baghdādī, known as al-Nāqid, later a resident of al-Raqqah.
He transmitted from Hushaym, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām, and their contemporaries.
He was counted among the great repositories of knowledge.