Transmitters who reported from him included: Ibn Mājah in his Sunan; his nephew Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣalt al-Ḥammānī; Baqī ibn Makhlad; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad; Muṭayyin; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān; Abū Yaʿlā of Mosul; al-Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs; al-Ḥasan ibn Baḥr al-Bayrūdhī—spelled with a dotted dhāl—and ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, along with a number of others.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said, “I read to my father some ḥadiths I had heard from Jabārah; he rejected a portion of them and remarked, ‘These are fabricated.’”
Al-Bukhārī judged his narrations “inconsistent.”
Ibn Maʿīn is reported to have said, “He is a liar.”
Ibn Numayr stated, “Material was forged for him and he would go on to relate it.”
Mūsā ibn Hārūn said: “He died in 241 AH, having nearly reached one hundred years of age.”
58 – ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsī * (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah)
He is the Imām, eminent ḥadith master, and Qurʾānic exegete, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad, son of the judge Abū Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuwāstá al-ʿAbsī, a client of that tribe, from Kūfah. He authored several works and was the brother of the ḥadith scholar Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah.
He was born a little after 160 AH.