Bakr; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Naṣr, the ḥadith memoriser; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj; Muḥammad ibn Shādhil al-Hāshimī; Muḥammad ibn Shādhān; and his teacher, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī, together with many others.

Al-Nasaʾī judged him trustworthy.

Al-Ḥākim said, “He was the leading shaykh for integrity and accreditation in his time and the person most closely associated with Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā—though Yaḥyā would reproach him for occupying himself with court testimony.”

I heard Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Bukhārī say, “I heard Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Naṣr—the head of Nishapur resident in Bukhara—state: ‘Al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr narrated to us. When the judgeship of Nishapur was offered to him, he hid for three days, supplicated Allah, and died on the third day.’”

Al-Sarrāj reported: “He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, in the year 238 AH.”

Among his sayings: “A man may seclude himself from the world with his body while his heart remains entangled in it, and another may mingle with it bodily while his heart has parted from it; the latter is the wiser of the two.”

81 – ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥassān al-ʿAnbarī (Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasaʾī, Ibn Khuzaymah)

The peerless ḥadith master, a reliable authority, Abū ʿAmr al-ʿAnbarī of Basra.

He reported from: his father; Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān; Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith; Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ; and others of their rank.

Those who transmitted from him include: Muslim; Abū Dāwūd; al-Bukhārī; al-Nasaʾī (through an intermediary); Abū Zurʿah; Abū Ḥātim; ʿUthmān al-Dārimī; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā, the “tailor of the sunnah”; and Jaʿfar.